Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-12 Thread Tony Finch
Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: > > Hopefully there will be some movement next year when they're scheduled to > discuss it again.It's unfortunate that the first negative leap second > is likely to occur before then. Not that soon! There is not likely to be a leap second for 5 years

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-10 Thread John R. Levine
On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Billy Croan wrote: I think a much better answer to the nuisance of leap seconds (their uncertainty), instead of dropping them all together, MIGHT be let them build up for a century and deal with it every hundred years or every thousand. Maybe every decade? Sheesh. In

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-10 Thread Billy Croan
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 15:53 Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > Having at least a part of one foot in the global time and frequency > community I'd say that it seems that the consensus is building toward > eliminating leap seconds. > > There was a vote planned in 2012

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
tems simply skewed the time so that 60 seconds actually just took 61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be involved. -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: nanog@nanog

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
On 8/3/2022 8:09 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: General press loses its *mind*: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spinning-faster-than-usual-shortest-day-ever/#app Have you tested leap second handling,

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-08 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 9:22 AM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > Occurs to me that "the last second of today" is approximately a million > times > more likely as a scheduling target than "the next to last second"; they > should > drop 23:59:5*8* instead. You’re probably one of those folks who

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Tom Scott ponders the leap second. And Timezones, and and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY - Original Message - > From: "jra" > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:09:25 AM > Subject: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... >

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Are the people involved in that consensus engineering types? - Original Message - > From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" > To: "John Levine" > Cc: "nanog list" > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 4:51:42 PM > Subject: Re: IERS ponders re

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Having at least a part of one foot in the global time and frequency community I'd say that it seems that the consensus is building toward eliminating leap seconds. There was a vote planned in 2012 to do so after a straw poll showed that most member countries was in favor to do so. But in a

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-04 Thread John Levine
>> > General press loses its *mind*: No more than usual. They're just rewriting this Facebook blog post: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/25/production-engineering/its-time-to-leave-the-leap-second-in-the-past/ It appears that Forrest Christian (List Account) said: >Personally I'd like to

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Personally I'd like to see the UTC timescale be fixed to the TAI timescale with a fixed offset determined by whatever the offset is when they make the change. Or stated as a different solution with the same result: quit adding/removing seconds from the TAI to UTC offset. At the same time, those

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Peter Beckman" > On Wed, 3 Aug 2022, Matthew Huff wrote: > This shouldn't cause huge issues, as most systems will not freak out and > die if the system clocks goes from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00. But things that > were supposed to happen at 23:59:59 on that

RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Daniel Marks via NANOG
there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be > involved. > > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox@nanog.org On Behalf Of Stephane > Bortzmeyer > > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM > To: Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com

RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Peter Beckman
On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote a message of 32 lines which said: General press loses its *mind*: Indeed

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
gt; 61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be > involved. > > > > -Original Message- > From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephane > Bortzmeyer > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM > To: Jay Ashworth > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sub

RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
Message- >From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephane >Bortzmeyer >Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM >To: Jay Ashworth >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... > >On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth >wrote a mes

RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Matthew Huff
, but coders wouldn't be involved. -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth

Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > General press loses its *mind*: Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the universal way time is measured on Earth – may have to change" They don't even know the

IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
General press loses its *mind*: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spinning-faster-than-usual-shortest-day-ever/#app Have you tested leap second handling, especially in reverse? How do you simulate it? Are there existing test harnesses for simulating it? Cheers, -- jra -- Sent from my