In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes: >I am willing to agree that the underlying time scales of broadcast >signals and computer systems need to be free of leap seconds.
Thanks, a much needed conversion :-) >I am not willing to agree that civil time can drift from the sun. I doubt they will, but fiddling with it in hour-size bits every few hundred years is much more likely to work than one second bits ever other year, so that would be my preference. >I also maintain that the "right" forms of the zoneinfo files already >are proof of concept. They demonstrate that computers can have an uniform underlying time scale while still providing a civil time scale >that has leap seconds. The technical issues are basically solved. Well, you havn't by any stretch of the imagination solved the problem of how to get the zoneinfo files onto the computers. Just this last week, a DG Ecclipse/8000 system was powerd off, it has been doing ATC radar stiching for the last 20 years or so. Do I need to tell you when they last got a software patch for their operating system ? :-) >Inspired by Seidelmann and Fukushima's pictorial form, I have been >working on these >http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html >I'm not done with details and decorations, but the basic ideas are >there now. Cool work, do I spot another disciple of the cult of Tufte ? (otherwise buy his books (www.tufte.com), you will love them :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
