[LEAPSECS] rubber seconds in Japan!

[Zefram]

Steve Allen wrote:

>100 of them, just before the leap


This is essentially the same technique as Markus Kuhn's UTC-SLS (UTC
with Smoothed Leap Seconds), but over a shorter period.  One might well
suppose that if they'd heard of UTC-SLS then they'd have used it, and so
this is probably an independent invention.  Presumably they're working
with the same objective: to provide a timescale that usually matches UTC
exactly but also does not violate the fixed 60-seconds-per-minute model.

Interesting that they're only doing that for some users (those connecting
by copper, apparently).  Users connecting by fibre get a visible (well,
audible) leap.  Assumptions about the precision required by different
classes of user?

-zefram