[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ian Batten]

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>> I think that before conjecturing the requires of isolated machines  

>> which have no source of leap seconds (not even manual application  

>> via a commandline interface "leap_next_31_dec") and yet are  

>> attached to better than 0.02ppm clocks, someone should provide an  

>> example of an isolated machine that is attached to a 0.02ppm  

>> clock.  And why everyone else should deal with the complexity to  

>> save that one computer the $100 bill for a GPS receiver.

>

> The issue isn't money, it's access to the sky.


WWV, MSF or DCF77.

If people need to operate machines in Faraday Cages, but are not  
prepared to supply a single manual update of one bit of information  
per six months, I'm not sure to what extent the rest of the community  
should have to engage in huge complexity in order to pander to them.

ian