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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:26:22 -0700
On 7/5/2012 5:54 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote:
Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, just create your own time system. You could call it OpenTime. OpenTime will use NTP servers where the Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care about leap seconds. That way the consumer can chose to connect his machines to UTC or OpenTime.And what do you do if "OpenTime" and "UTC" differs so that it matters? Do the fligt leave at 1200 UTC or 1200 OpenTime? ...
Lets see. There have been nine leap seconds in 20 years. So at the start of the next century the difference will probably be less than a minute
Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of OpenTime.
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jared Mauch (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Richard Irving (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jared Mauch (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Kristolaitis (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 04)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Roy (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tyler Haske (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Eugen Leitl (Jul 05)