> very much need to know and agree what time it is. Yes but mostly only to an accuracy of minutes.
-paul Sent from my BlackBerry® by Boost Mobile -----Original Message----- From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:42:42 To: Leap Second Discussion List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K In message <[email protected]>, "Finklema n, Dave" writes: >We can just let things be as they have been for nearly 40 years. Sure, no argument from here: Please shut down your Internet connection and any cell-phones you might have, and don't use them ever again :-) The crucial change in exactly the last 40 years, is that computers of all sizes are communicating and the applications we want them to run for us, very much need to know and agree what time it is. 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 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
