On May 30, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote:
Oh, you're such an old earth+photon guy. Ask any space probe, neutrino, or
gravitational astronomer if they share your sleep problem. ;-)
As with timekeeping in general it is a question of complex systems-of-systems,
e.g.:
Hi Tom and Rob,
On 2015-05-30 06:05 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
Perhaps one should point out that local midnight is pretty much the worst
possible time for astronomers to accommodate such a change?
Hi Rob,
Oh, you're such an old earth+photon guy. Ask any space probe, neutrino, or
gravitational
Perhaps one should point out that local midnight is pretty much the worst
possible time for astronomers to accommodate such a change?
Hi Rob,
Oh, you're such an old earth+photon guy. Ask any space probe, neutrino, or
gravitational astronomer if they share your sleep problem. ;-)
I understand
On May 29, 2015, at 10:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
In message 11BA4A073E104FD29BD9DB1892B7C60F@pc52, Tom Van Baak writes:
And now for something completely different...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/29/windows_azure_second_out_of_sync/
The opererative
In message b6b86593-04ad-47d8-a95a-e1c50cdb9...@noao.edu, Rob Seaman writes:
The opererative detail is this:
Microsoft has determined that clocks on tens of thousands
of servers globally running Azure should switch to the leap
second at midnight in the time zone
