Re: Approach to leap second discussion

2006-01-23 Thread Francois Meyer
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Rob Seaman wrote: > > I hope we can all continue this discussion in a more positive manner. > > I'm of the opinion that messages on this list (no matter how > "tricky" :-) are always positive. I personnally have 1 or 2 counter examples, but mailling lists have for long greatl

Re: Approach to leap second discussion

2006-01-22 Thread Ed Davies
Rob Seaman wrote: I hope we can all continue this discussion in a more positive manner. I'm of the opinion that messages on this list (no matter how "tricky" :-) are always positive. Timekeeping is a fundamental issue. It would be remarkable if there weren't diverse opinions. Any negative asp

Re: Approach to leap second discussion

2006-01-22 Thread Rob Seaman
I hope we can all continue this discussion in a more positive manner. I'm of the opinion that messages on this list (no matter how "tricky" :-) are always positive. Timekeeping is a fundamental issue. It would be remarkable if there weren't diverse opinions. Any negative aspects of this discus

Approach to leap second discussion

2006-01-22 Thread Ed Davies
The way I think exploration in this group should be going is to seriously examine what engineering steps can be taken to deal with leap seconds properly. This means looking at changes to Posix and NTP, new protocols for disseminating leap second information, new APIs for accessing clock informati