On Jul 1, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> it is pretty obvious that John Olivers attention to the leap-second vastly
> increased the awareness.
It was the final kick, but the interest level was up broadly already, with many
new voices like:
https://medium.com/@NGA_GEOINT/by-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency-source-communications-1d7363673e42
Oliver’s folks recognized the issue is perfectly tailored to today’s short
attention span. It's scalable to any number of instant clips capturing the
zeitgeist. During future leap seconds one can anticipate other people picking
up on the idea.
> Given that awareness has always been the major deficiency about leap-seconds
> he may just have saved them, by showing that awareness is possible.
Agreed!
> But it seems possible that large fraction of Linux systems have been
> following Googles leap-smear without knowing it because of systemd.
More evidence for the need for certification programs like NTF’s. Whether leap
seconds continue or not, there will be multiple timescales loose in the wild.
Certification of some sort is needed to have confidence that you’re using the
right one for whatever purpose.
Rob
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