On Sat 2015-01-10T05:59:39 -0800, Steve Allen hath writ: > other problems that nobody has talked about openly, and nothing in the > current versions of the Linux kernel is going to fix those.
In case anyone is talking with news media there is an easy-to-grok demo of the chaotic handling of the most recent leap second by various precision time systems which were not Linux boxes per se: Skip Newhall's 2012 leap second party with his rack full of receivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_ro4aBez8 Only one of those devices, the Spectracom WWVB receiver, displayed the leap second in accord with TF.460, and a few months after the leap NIST changed the phase modulation of WWVB in a way that was expected to break its ability to maintain a lock on the precise time. Each of the other receivers did something different than TF.460. -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
