> >We are finally going to have a leap second again (first one since I bought > >my 5071A over five years ago)... > > It also means that the attempt to prevent leapseconds before they > do more damage failed... > > It even means we get to see how much damage they'll make...
The way I figure it if Lance Armstrong can have one more shot at the Tour de France before he retires then we can have one more leap second before they are retired. ;-) The most recent leap second (1/1/99) occurred in the middle of the Y2K, telecom, dot-com, and internet bubble and didn't bother anything. But as we have discussed elsewhere, a lot of technology has since been built that has never seen a leap second. Then again, most of that technology doesn't care. When in the future something like an iPod needs to know UTC to a fraction of a second, then we really don't want to have leap seconds. /tvb View a Leap Second - December 31, 1998 http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/ls-wwvb-98.htm _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
