On 16 Sep 2011 at 10:54, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Well, Googles hack is a workaround for internal use with no regard > to subsecond interoperability with anybody else.
That's typical of Google's general philosophy, where they value their services functioning smoothly over strict compliance with external standards; for instance, "web purist geeks' find it infuriating that Google's HTML fails to validate, but they're more interested in shaving off a few bytes by doing things like omitting quotes around attributes even where the standards require them, so long as all known browsers render the page correctly. Where time is concerned, they (probably correctly) judge that subsecond precision of timestamps isn't going to matter to users of their services, so all they're really concerned about is internal consistency between their many servers, which will be achieved if they all maintain accurate timepieces following the same internal standard for dealing with leap seconds. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
