On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:03:38 -0500, Charles Mills  wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:59:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin  wrote:
>    ...    
>>TRY  fetch CVTLSO
>>     STCK
>>    compare fetched value to CVTLSO
>>    BNE TRY
>
>I did that sort of thing on a CMS system IIRC where I needed millisecond 
>resolution. I had one API that gave me TOD and one that gave me STCK. I called 
>TOD, then STCk, then TOD to see if it had changed. Seemed to work well.
>
If they disagreed, did you do another STCK?

>>Two additional instructions for a hazard that occurs only every few months.
>
>Or not at all: https://www.livescience.com/goodbye-leap-second-2035
>
     "At any time there's a one-second offset, we can let it go
    until it compounds to a minute or more and then make the
     time change every century or more," Tavella said.

Kick it down the road;  our grandchildren will figure it out.
I've seen a proposal for leap hours -- we do that every
November anyway.  Then we could skip the next "Spring
Forward".  Who could complain about that?

-- 
gil

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