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Re: Leap Second planned for 2016
From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:14:03 +0300
On 9 July 2016 at 04:39, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote: Hey,
But time _DOES_ flow. The seconds count 58, 59, 60, 00, 01, … If you can’t keep up, that’s not UTC’s fault.
Check the implementation on your PC. This is why code is broken and people don't even know it's broken. You have to use monotonic time to measure passage of time, which is not particularly easy to do portable, in some languages.
As for stopping the leap seconds, talk to the planet Earth. It’s the one who will not conveniently rotate properly. Either that, or run REEEEEEALLY Fast in that -> direction every once in a while. :-)
In practice this does not appear to be significant problem. Several thousand years must pass until clocks have shifted one hour, and we have experience on shifting clocks one hour within a year, so I'm sure we can tolerate slippage caused by not having leaps. I'm holding my thumbs up for 2023 and sanity prevailing. -- ++ytti
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Eric Tykwinski (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Jared Mauch (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Harlan Stenn (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Chris Adams (Jul 08)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Eric S. Raymond (Jul 09)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 A . L . M . Buxey (Jul 09)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 09)
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- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 09)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 09)
- RE: Leap Second planned for 2016 Keith Medcalf (Jul 09)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Saku Ytti (Jul 10)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Steve Allen (Jul 10)
- Re: Leap Second planned for 2016 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 10)
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