[LEAPSECS] W1K GPS rollover for some time servers

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Tue May 5 23:19:14 EDT 2015


On May 5, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> This is an excellent example of the unintended consequences of leap seconds,
> and the ways they insinuate themselves into non-obvious parts of the code.

...and is it somehow impossible that there might be unintended consequences from permitting UTC to drift away from actual Universal Time?  There are very obvious *intended* consequences that will negatively impact astronomical, aerospace and navigational systems.

Rob



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