Rod Dorman wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> David L. Mills wrote: >>> More specifically, for those survivors that show leap warnings, a >>> counter is incremented. If any survivoe, referencde clock or not, does >>> not show warning the ocunter is not incremented. For refclocks the >>> counter is set to the number of survivors, but only if the warning is >>> lit. After this, if the counter is greater than half the number of >>> survivors, the system leap warning is lit. You are welcdome to suggest >>> an alternative method on the basis that some refclocks do not implement >>> the leap warning and others may show a warning in error. >> How about a leap minute every 240 years or so? > > How would that address the issue? > > Or are you saying in 240 years you won't be around to care :-) >
Exactly!! Dump the problem on our ten/eleven-times greatgrandchildren! Leap seconds? Who needs them??????? Ninetynine percent of the clocks in the world are already off by more than one seconds. Half of them will be a second more off and the other half will be, briefly, one second closer to being right. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
