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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:17:53 +0000
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 08:29 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote a message of 15 lines which said:The problems are that UTC is unpredictable,That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it now! So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year
(and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC only go down to thousandths so it'll still need a little skewing but I'm sure we'll manage). Ps - if anyone actually does this, I'm going postal.
Current thread:
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND, (continued)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Jay Ashworth (Jun 21)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Bjoern A. Zeeb (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Saku Ytti (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Randy Bush (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Marshall Eubanks (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Alan Buxey (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND shawn wilson (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Damian Menscher via NANOG (Jun 24)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tony Finch (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Stefan Schlesinger (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Damian Menscher via NANOG (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Tore Anderson (Jun 25)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 22)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND Harlan Stenn (Jun 20)
- Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND shawn wilson (Jun 20)