[LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K

[Paul Sheer]

On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 22:35 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <1292102703.24926.29.camel at localhost>, Paul Sheer writes:

> 

> >Apply this principle as follows: ACCEPT that there are servers

> >and desktops all over the world are MISCONFIGURED and do NOT

> >have second-accurate syncronization, and are NEVER going to

> >have second-accurate syncronization.

> 

> Ohh we do, we most certainly do.

> 

> But that does not allow us to ignore the servers which are

> synchronized and which need to be synchronized to work.

> 


I disagree. It very much allows us to ignore those servers
from a standards point of view.

This is because by-and-large software is written for the "lowest
common denominator".

-paul