Re: [time-nuts] Leap second smear at Google

2013-09-20 Thread Tom Van Baak
> I don't know how "elegant" this solution from Google is Christopher, It's a clever, internal solution to the difficult problem leap seconds create in any large automated system. That blog entry is 2 years old. The issue has been discussed at length on the leap second mailing list; you can rea

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second smear at Google

2013-09-20 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Christopher, Obviously GOOG needs a time-nut on their staff! Interesting stuff! John W. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Christopher Quarksnow wrote: > Besides the famous Android stint described in Google bug 5485 > https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5485 that took 2 years >

[time-nuts] Leap second smear at Google

2013-09-20 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
Besides the famous Android stint described in Google bug 5485 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5485 that took 2 years to fix, so many Android phones system clocks were 15 seconds fast then, I just found the source of another discrepancy where Google spreads the leap second offset