Sure. ALL of this has been gamed out, and I had believed, handled, by the 8601 nerds, and we ignore that investment of work at our peril.
On August 3, 2022 11:33:09 AM EDT, Matthew Huff <mh...@ox.com> wrote: >True, > >But it's hard enough to get developers to understand the need to code for 61 >seconds in a minute, and now they would need to code for 59 seconds as well. > >If time systems simply skewed the time so that 60 seconds actually just took >61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be >involved. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Stephane >Bortzmeyer >Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM >To: Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... > >On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> >wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > >> General press loses its *mind*: > >Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the >universal way time is measured on Earth – may have to change" They don't even >know the difference between TAI and UTC. > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
