[154469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Thu Jul 5 01:26:42 2012
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:25:50 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <A7DEBF8D-F463-4ACD-9613-F910B533C575@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/4/12 8:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Given that we don't seem to be able to eliminate the absurdity of DST,
> I doubt that either of those proposals is likely to fly. Owen
Before we had timezones your clock offset was forward or backward 4
minutes every-time you crossed a meridian.