[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ian Batten]

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> to do this correctly for ten years, it would need a ten year leap

> second table.


Or someone to supply a manual update every two or three years.  If the  
machine is so isolated that it cannot receive those updates, why does  
the high-precision timestamp in the logs matter?  This is what I fail  
to see: systems which are so isolated from timekeeping hat they cannot  
receive one-bit updates, and yet are so tied into timekeeping that  
they need to generate and store timestamps to high precision.  What's  
the use case?  Not some hypothetical, but a real application?

ian