In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> Sometimes I think we should define a second that's 1e-11 or so shorter so >> that the problems of leap seconds disappear into the noise for a generation >> or three, but I doubt that would fare any better than any of the other >> suggestions made... > >It's been ignored since I suggested it in 2001:
You mean: We realized 30+ years ago that rubber-seconds are totally unworkable. -- 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
