Re: Longer leap second notice, was: Where the responsibility lies

2006-01-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ed Davies writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: If we can increase the tolerance to 10sec, IERS can give us the leapseconds with 20 years notice and only the minority of computers that survive longer than that would need to update the factory installed table of

Re: Longer leap second notice, was: Where the responsibility lies

2006-01-03 Thread Rob Seaman
On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ed Davies writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: If we can increase the tolerance to 10sec, IERS can give us the leapseconds with 20 years notice and only the minority of computers that survive longer than that would

Re: Longer leap second notice, was: Where the responsibility lies

2006-01-03 Thread Warner Losh
I continue to find the focus on general purpose computing infrastructure to be unpersuasive. If we can convince hardware and software vendors to pay enough attention to timing requirements to implement such a strategy, we can convince them to implement a more complete time handling