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-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabe Goldberg Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 5:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: NOTSP Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap seconds | ZDNet For decades, we've used leap seconds to keep our computers in sync with Earth's rotation time. Now, Meta and many others argue that new leap seconds are more trouble than they're worth. In her hit song, Cher sang, "If I could turn back time <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A_-HRFfc>." For her, that would be a good thing. But in the computing world, Meta, formerly Facebook, believes it would be a very bad thing indeed. In fact, Meta wants to get rid of leap seconds <https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/>, which keep computing time in sync with Earth's rotational time. Meta's not the only one that feels that way. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), its French equivalent (the Bureau International de Poids et Mesures or BIPM), Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all want to put an end to leap seconds. Why? As Meta explained in a blog post <https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/>, "We bump into problems whenever a leap second is introduced. And because it's such a rare event, it devastates the community every time it happens. With a growing demand for clock precision across all industries, the leap second is now causing more damage than good, resulting in disturbances and outages." Therefore, Meta concludes, we should simply "stop the future introduction of leap seconds." https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/tech-giants-want-to-put-an-end-to-leap-seconds/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
