Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

[Harlan Stenn <stenn () nwtime org>]

On 7/8/16 4:47 PM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On 9 July 2016 at 02:27, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:
> > Time is actually harder than it seems. Many bits of software break in unexpected ways. Expect the unexpected.
>
> Aye. How many have written code like this:
>
> start = time();
> do_something();
> elapsed = time() - start;
>
> Virtually all code dealing with passage of time assumes time moves
> only forward, I'm amazed we don't see more issues during leap seconds.
> Portable monotonic time isn't even available in many languages
> standard libraries.
>
> Hopefully they'll decide in 2023 finally to get rid of leap seconds
> from UTC. Then GPS_TIME, TAI and UTC are all same with different
> static offset.

How about you run your systems on TAI or satellite time?

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