On Sep 4, 2012, at 3:12 AM, Paul Sheer wrote:

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>> It seems from this that there are always a few people advertising
>> leap seconds when they shouldn't be...
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> previously i proposed that any code that measures a fail-timeout make
> that timeout 1000ms longer whenever  t % 86400  is near zero

I assume that you mean near 0 or near 86400 since % is unsigned.

> this pattern would duck most bugs

With timeouts, yes.  With other things, not so much...

> these bogus advertisements seem like another good reason to implement
> this

It says a lot about the robustness of leap seconds...

Warner


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