[181698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: leap second outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harlan Stenn)
Wed Jul 1 00:48:36 2015
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From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
To: Joe <jbfixurpc@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:47:15 +0000
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Joe writes:
> A leap sec causing issues. For about 40 years now, there have been
> these leap seconds to no real issue. All of these are "go-forwards"
No, they're all "go-backwards" events. That's no big deal to things
that don't care about monotonic time, or to folks who aren't in
violation of something if their timestamps are off by a second.
What I'm about to say may not be as stupid as it sounds: The problems
here aren't problems for cases where it's not a problem. It is a
problem where it *is* a problem.
It's a case where one person's signal is another person's noise.
H
