In message <57e575f7.1010...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
>So, now there are at least 3 different smears in use by major providers [...]
Clearly leapseconds are such a good idea that everybody wants in on the game :-/
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Hmmm. You wonder why they chose 2000 seconds, which gives a nice round
number of seconds for the duration: 2000/60=3.3... :-|
So, now there are at least 3 different smears in use by major providers
to "hide" the Leap Second from downstream systems that might be upset by
it. This produces indet
David Malone wrote
> Must have just been a citation? I don't see it mentioned in the final list.
Leap seconds didn't win an Ig Nobel prize; they *were* the Ig Nobel prize!
The trophy this year was a clock face with 61 seconds.
See the picture on this article:
http://www.latimes.com/science/scienc
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
> Bloomberg will smear over 2000 seconds after the leap.
> https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/4/Bloomberg-Leap-Second_December-2016.pdf
>
> They are one of many cloud and financial operations who have,
> ironically, decided that the
Bloomberg will smear over 2000 seconds after the leap.
https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/4/Bloomberg-Leap-Second_December-2016.pdf
They are one of many cloud and financial operations who have,
ironically, decided that the non-precision timekeeping through the 1960s
(and of POSIX) is
David Malone wrote:
> Must have just been a citation? I don't see it mentioned in the final list.
Ah, I now see that Eric Maskin was one of the Nobel prize winners helping
out with the prize-giving. Oh well.
Tony.
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Must have just been a citation? I don't see it mentioned in the final list.
David.
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