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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Thu Jul 5 01:16:25 2012

Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:15:45 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FF520D7.5040201@alter3d.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 7/4/2012 10:06 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
> On 7/5/2012 12:47 AM, Roy wrote:
>> Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, 
>> just create your own time system.
>>
>> You could call it OpenTime.  OpenTime will use NTP servers where the 
>> Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care 
>> about leap seconds.  That way the consumer can chose to connect his 
>> machines to UTC or OpenTime.
>>
>
> Oblig:  http://xkcd.com/927/
>
> - Pete
>
>

Right on!



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