Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Roy wrote:

Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of OpenTime.

Obviously you need a machine time, which is monotonous, high-resolution (you don't need too many bits even if you resolve down to Planck time and gigayears) and works on any planetary body or in space at any speed, and a human time, which is dynamically derived from machine time, using algorithms depending on particular location and occasion. The sooner we can separate the machine time from people time, the better.