I'm not a huge fan of leap seconds for enterprise computing enviornments unless there is a regulatory or other legal requirement for the system time to exactly match legal time.
I'm quite happy that my own personal time server didn't support the leap second (: ------------------------------ On Sun, 1 Jul, 2012 8:24 PM EDT Jim Palfreyman wrote: >As an astronomer I've been a supporter of the current leap second situation >and have not really liked the idea of changing. > >However, after yesterday I'm thinking of changing my mind. > >I quite enjoyed having to go through and change all my clocks (including a >pendulum clock - now that's a pain!), but then the news came through that >Amadeus crashed worldwide. Passengers everywhere were left stranded for >hours because of this. > >Y2K all over again - but this time something big happened. > >This could also have been serious. Were planes tested in-flight for this? I >bet they weren't. > >Software writers the world over are notorious for not fully testing their >code, so the leap second situation in our increasingly time-dependent world >has the potential to one day take a life. > >Maybe it is time to swallow this bitter pill and remove the leap second. > >I haven't jumped ship yet - but I'm very very close. > >Thoughts? > >Jim Palfreyman >_______________________________________________ >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
