[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Christopher Hoover]

Steve,

Google smears, too[1].  Smearing is a good engineering solution for
datacenter-scale computing and planet-wide databases [2].

Disclosure: I"m at Google.

-christopher.
73 de AI6KG

[1]
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html
[2] http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:

> Bloomberg will smear over 2000 seconds after the leap.
> https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/4/Bloomberg-Leap-Second_
> December-2016.pdf
>
> They are one of many cloud and financial operations who have,
> ironically, decided that the non-precision timekeeping through the 1960s
> (and of POSIX) is preferable to the precise time choice made by the CCIR.
>
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