[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 72, Issue 3

[Matsakis, Demetrios]

Rumors that the USNO tried to insert a leap decade as an experiment are not exactly correct.  See the message in http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html.  One of the 50-odd emails we got indicated that it would take working all night to undo the damage.  A few responded that it was a good lesson for them - they would now configure their NTP to get time from multiple sources for error-checking.

I'm not sure if there is a moral for this listserve.    We all know that equipment can break, and humans can make mistakes.

Those who are against leap seconds will say that this is yet another example showing that even so-called experts can make mistakes, so we should KISS-away all potential programming hazards.

Those who support keeping leap seconds will say that if the world can survive a 12-year rollback, how could one measly second make a difference?

And I suppose many on this list will have even more to say.


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Today's Topics:

   1. yesterday USNO said it was year 2000 (Steve Allen)
   2. Re: yesterday USNO said it was year 2000 (David Malone)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:46:48 -0800
From: Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org>
Subject: [LEAPSECS] yesterday USNO said it was year 2000
To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>
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Various messages in admin support forums are indicating fallout
from the event recorded here
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-November/053449.html
wherein the USNO's NTP servers tick and tock briefly jumped 12 years
into the past.

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:20:27 +0000
From: David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] yesterday USNO said it was year 2000
To: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>
Message-ID: <20121121112028.571FA7304D at walton.maths.tcd.ie>


> Various messages in admin support forums are indicating fallout

> from the event recorded here

> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-November/053449.html

> wherein the USNO's NTP servers tick and tock briefly jumped 12 years

> into the past.


Not just that, but Android 4.2 doesn't know about December:

        http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412287,00.asp

David.


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