[181373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Mon Jun 22 10:21:38 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20150622122718.GA10690@nic.fr>
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:17:53 +0000
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 08:29 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100,
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote
> a message of 15 lines which said:
>
> > The problems are that UTC is unpredictable,
>
> That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on
> this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it
> now!
>
> So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year
(and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's
rotational time. I mean we've got the computers to do it (I think most RTC
only go down to thousandths so it'll still need a little skewing but I'm
sure we'll manage).
Ps - if anyone actually does this, I'm going postal.
