Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Warner, > But consider TAI and UTC when they were equal, for the sake of > argument. I know they never were, but if we look at what the first one > would look like: That's a nice, clear example. Thanks. > 23:59:58 23:59:580 > 23:59:59

Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

2017-02-03 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2017-02-03 04:30 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Zefram wrote: Warner Losh wrote: If you are going to willfully misunderstand, then I'm done being patient. I am not willfully misunderstanding. I have tried to un

Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

2017-02-03 Thread Stephen Scott
On 2017-02-03 16:30, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Zefram wrote: Warner Losh wrote: If you are going to willfully misunderstand, then I'm done being patient. I am not willfully misunderstanding. I have tried to und

Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

2017-02-03 Thread Warner Losh
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Zefram wrote: >> Warner Losh wrote: >>>If you are going to willfully misunderstand, then I'm done being patient. >> >> I am not willfully misunderstanding. I have tried to understand >> what you're doing, and

Re: [LEAPSECS] Go API for monotonitc elapsed time measurements

2017-02-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Tony Finch writes: >This is an interesting proposal for fixing the Cloudflare leap second bug, >so that time interval calculations do sensible things even when the clock >is reset, without making an incompatible change to the existing APIs. > >https://github.com/golang/propo

[LEAPSECS] 36 or 37 -- multi-leap

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Van Baak
About whether dTAI is 36 or 37 before/during/after the 2016 leap second -- here's another way to appreciate what's going on with UTC time scale tectonics. The UTC spec allows for positive and negative leap seconds, and by current convention they are limited to at most one per month. This means -

[LEAPSECS] Go API for monotonitc elapsed time measurements

2017-02-03 Thread Tony Finch
This is an interesting proposal for fixing the Cloudflare leap second bug, so that time interval calculations do sensible things even when the clock is reset, without making an incompatible change to the existing APIs. https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12914-monotonic.md Tony.