[154528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Thu Jul 5 15:32:54 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:32:00 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FF5CE3E.6060603@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Roy wrote:
> Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to
> ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of
> OpenTime.
Obviously you need a machine time, which is monotonous, high-resolution
(you don't need too many bits even if you resolve down to Planck time
and gigayears) and works on any planetary body or in space at any speed,
and a human time, which is dynamically derived from machine time, using
algorithms depending on particular location and occasion.
The sooner we can separate the machine time from people time, the better.
