[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Tim Shepard]

> 

> this is why leap seconds announced ten years in advanced

> are important: they allow for a stand-alone machine, albeit

> one that only needs to have it's software upgraded once in

> ten years.



A stand alone machine is going to have its clock drift by more than a
few seconds over 10 years.    Leap seconds are in the noise compared
to errors due to accumulated drift of standalone machines.

If it has a way of receiving a time signal to stay synchronized, then
it ought to have a way of receiving info about the leap seconds (if
they even matter).

			-Tim Shepard
			 shep at alum.mit.edu