On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 19:08 -0700, Christopher Hoover wrote: > Steve, > > Google smears, too[1]. Smearing is a good engineering solution for > datacenter-scale computing and planet-wide databases [2]. > > Disclosure: I"m at Google. > > -christopher. > 73 de AI6KG > > [1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leapi > ng-seconds.html > [2] http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
Google says in the blog that they did the smearing to avoid the need to review all of their time-sensitive code. Those of us who love leap seconds need to spend the next 10 years doing that code review, and the necessary testing and bug fixing to get everything working in the presence of leap seconds. We also need to fix operating systems and subroutine libraries so that when application programmers, who don't care about leap seconds, write their code it will "just work". If we do that, then the next time the issue is considered there will be much less motivation to abandon leap seconds. John Sauter ([email protected]) -- PGP fingerprint E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603 49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E
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