[181321] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Sat Jun 20 14:59:05 2015
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:58:56 -0400
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, Jun 20, 2015, 14:16 Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> wrote:
>
> shawn wilson writes:
> > ... I mean letting computers figure out slower earth rotation on the
> > fly would seem more accurate than leap seconds anyway. And then all of
> > us who do earthly things and would like simpler libraries could live
> > in peace.
>
> Really? Have you looked in to those calculations, and I'm only talking
> about the allegedly predictable parts of those calculations, not things
> like the jetstream, the circumpolar currents, or earthquakes.
>
Ok, forget that point - AFAIK, the only things that matter wrt time is
agreement on interval/counter and epoch, and stability. Right now we only
have agreement on interval.
So while I'd prefer a consistent epoch and counter, I'll live with whatever
as we have access to board agreement and stability (like this doesn't hit
NANOG every time with "uh oh").
