[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:03, leapsecs-request at leapsecond.com wrote:


> A complex business environment which nonetheless cannot perform one bit of I/O per eighteen months.  A complex business system which nonetheless cannot interact with NTP, MSF/DCF77/WWV or GPS?  I think you're making something up to bolster a point, not referring to any real business environment.


As I mentioned some weeks ago, as far as I can tell plenty (GPS/NTP/CDMA/...) equipment is already failing at the "one bit of I/O" as it is.  Leap seconds already don't work for some period after each adjustment.  Making timekeeping more complex for the general use case ("count a second at a time, 60 seconds a minute, be able to compare my time to yours") is DOOMED.


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