In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Markus Kuhn writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote on 2005-08-10 18:26 UTC: >> If you want a really disturbing experience, visit a modern robotical >> slaughterhouse, and while you are there, observe and think about >> what a one second difference could do the the tightly coordinated >> choreography of the robots. >> >> The problem with leap seconds is when the systems are in touch with >> each other, have synchronized clocks and know it, and then suddenly >> some of the systems insert an extra second, and some of them don't... > >You seem to imply that all aspects of the timing and synchronization of >these systems are best synchronized to one single global coordinate >system. Why would you want to do that?
Because the food industry is required to provide trackability for food and the requirement is UTC time. I you look at your oat meal, you'll probably find that somewhere on the package there is a timestamp. (It may have only hours and minutes for dry stuff like that however). The same is true for the medical industry, only there the requirement is always one second precision. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
