On Tue 2014-04-15T09:42:20 -0400, Joseph Gwinn hath writ: > This first negative leap second may end civilization - essentially no > leap-second handling code is really ready for a step backwards.
I think not. I think many of the computing systems which fail for positive leaps are ready for negative leaps. A negative leap is saying "I missed experiencing some time". Any time sharing system should find it routine that a process was asleep while some time elapsed, and then it wakes up later. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
