RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

Sure.

ALL of this has been gamed out, and I had believed, handled, by the 8601 nerds, and we ignore that investment of work 
at our peril.

On August 3, 2022 11:33:09 AM EDT, Matthew Huff <mhuff () ox com> wrote:
> True, 
>
> But it's hard enough to get developers to understand the need to code for 61 seconds in a minute, and now they would 
> need to code for 59 seconds as well.
>
> If time systems simply skewed the time so that 60 seconds actually just took 61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be 
> other issues, but coders wouldn't be involved.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox.com () nanog org> On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM
> To: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...
>
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400,  Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote  a message of 32 lines which said:
>
> > General press loses its *mind*:
>
> Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the universal way time is measured on Earth – may 
> have to change" They don't even know the difference between TAI and UTC.

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