In message <[email protected]>, cook michael writes: > As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline >systems for the last 30 years, I remember NO down time, or outage due to >leap second insertion.
Only the last five years really matter, because tightly time-synchronized systems only spread in the last approx ten years, and the first leap second after that happened was five years ago. This is a problem that will only get worse as more and more systems are modernized. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
