M. Warner Losh said:
I think leap seconds are evil, and must die, but I think this
antiquated way of distributing leap seconds may be the root of most
evilness in the current scheme.
The entire ridiculous discussion (and the unilateral attempt to
steamroller a "solution") does come down to whether leap seconds are
regarded as a necessary evil.
It would be refreshing to design a time distribution system from the
top down, starting with an unbiased requirements discovery phase. I
don't give a damn for leap seconds, after all - rather, I'm a staunch
supporter of maintaining civil mean solar time as distinct from
interval time.
Magnus Danielson wrote:
For use on the Internet (important scooping, there are many non-
internet based systems out there, some for a very good reason) a
very simple means of achieving is by using DNS.
See the NTP working group:
https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/ntpwg
for a discussion on this topic almost LEAPSECS-like in its bloated
density.
Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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