In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bunclark writes: >Surely the point about the slaughterhouse is the thought of the throat >slasher getting a couple of seconds ahead of the brain stunner.
Because Denmark is so expensive in wages, automation is very advanced here and from a regulatory point of view there is only one job which will never be handed over to a industrial robots: Making sure that members of the target species enter the process. I have yet to see anybody come up with the thousand words that describe even one glimpse. We're talking _really_ bad splatter-movies here. One uncontrolled association while you are in there, and you don't sleep for days. >As for the issue of whether the slaugherhouse needs syncing to an external >clock, the point is that with the prevelance of ntp, it is just >as easy, or easier, nowadays to synchronize all devices to a global time >standard than it is to set up a local arbitrary clock and synchronize to that. Bingo. >A proposal that seems to me to go half way to satisfy both pro and anti >leapers is the one where computers switch to using TAI internally. We >could start thinking about that now and possibly start implementing it. Deal, you tackle POSIX, I tackle the reference implementations and NTP. In the meantime, lets hope the leap seconds don't wreck too much havoc. -- 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.
