[181374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Jun 22 10:27:51 2015
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:27:42 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
That's how UTC worked in the 1960s.
ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat
It causes problems for systems that have a tight coupling between time
and frequency - broadcast, cellular, etc.
Tony.
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