Re: [LEAPSECS] This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet -Brooks

2015-01-13 Thread Steve Allen
On Tue 2015-01-13T11:03:35 -0500, Brooks Harris hath writ: This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/13/technology/leap-second/index.html In that article is a link to a recent version of the Draft CPM document with the options that are being

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Hal Murray
If I understand the provenance, BIPM is responsible for maintaining atomic time and TAI, IERS is responsible maintaining for UT1 and Leap Seconds, and ITU is responsible for time dissemination. Whats not so clear, and it would be reassuring to know, is how the information is officially

Re: [LEAPSECS] This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet -Brooks

2015-01-13 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com wrote: |This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet |http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/13/technology/leap-second/index.html I liked very much that one of the first things Jobs' widow did was to spend money for high quality journalism. Oh man, *how*

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message AF8BF6DCD7234A3489E799728A5F4D01@pc52, Tom Van Baak writes: I'm more of a minimalist. Try this 40-line text file instead: http://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat This simple file has been around since the 90's and is always right. Ehh It may be in a purely

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Steve Allen
On Tue 2015-01-13T07:44:42 -0500, Brooks Harris hath writ: That's what I meant - there needs to be multiple ways, appropriate to each architecture or purpose, to obtain the information. So, that's why I suggested it as an API: a clearly defined set of metadata that could be implemented in

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Rob Seaman
On Jan 13, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Brooks Harris bro...@edlmax.com wrote: On 2015-01-12 06:42 PM, Rob Seaman wrote: On Jan 12, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: I've suggested at various occasions that the IERS should be the authoritative source for a leap

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Brooks Harris
Hi Rob, On 2015-01-12 06:42 PM, Rob Seaman wrote: On Jan 12, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: I've suggested at various occasions that the IERS should be the authoritative source for a leap second file. There were discussions at both the 2013 and 2011

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-01-12 02:03 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: If would really be good if there was one authoritative soure for this, and that there was a uniform format. Ideally there would be multiple ways to access it, via text and binary for different architectures. The might be thought of as a UTC Metadata

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Kevin Birth
The ITU-R is what social scientists call a supranational institution. These are institutions that make recommendations that have a tendency to trump national sovereignty. The manner in which this trumping of national laws occurs is that users tend to follow the supranational recommendation

[LEAPSECS] This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet -Brooks

2015-01-13 Thread Brooks Harris
This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to break the Internet http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/13/technology/leap-second/index.html -Brooks ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

2015-01-13 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-01-13 01:44 PM, Hal Murray wrote: If I understand the provenance, BIPM is responsible for maintaining atomic time and TAI, IERS is responsible maintaining for UT1 and Leap Seconds, and ITU is responsible for time dissemination. Whats not so clear, and it would be reassuring to know,