[LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Dec 11 19:18:23 EST 2010
In message <1292109115.24926.42.camel at localhost>, Paul Sheer writes:
>On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 22:35 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 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.
Which bit of "need" don't you understand ?
Are you happy with the ATC servers used to land your plane being
"within some minutes" of each other ?
I didn't think so...
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