[181365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Jun 22 08:15:47 2015
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:15:41 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1Z64EE-000Hjk-CX@stenn.ntp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> wrote:
> It's a problem with POSIX, not UTC.
>
> UTC is monotonic.
The problems are that UTC is unpredictable, and it breaks the standard
labelling of points in time that was used for hundreds (arguably
thousands) of years before 1972.
Tony.
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f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/
Irish Sea: Northwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first, becoming variable 4.
Slight or moderate. Mainly fair. Good.
