This is why we've internally standardized on Leap smearing, an added benefit is that it keeps us in sync with Google and AWS who also smear time in the same way.
Daniel Marks [email protected] ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 at 11:33 AM, Matthew Huff <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] On Behalf Of Stephane > Bortzmeyer > > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM > To: Jay Ashworth [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth [email protected] 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.
