On 9 July 2016 at 04:39, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote: Hey,
But time _DOES_ flow. The seconds count 58, 59, 60, 00, 01, … If you can’t keep up, that’s not UTC’s fault.
Check the implementation on your PC. This is why code is broken and people don't even know it's broken. You have to use monotonic time to measure passage of time, which is not particularly easy to do portable, in some languages.
As for stopping the leap seconds, talk to the planet Earth. It’s the one who will not conveniently rotate properly. Either that, or run REEEEEEALLY Fast in that -> direction every once in a while. :-)
In practice this does not appear to be significant problem. Several thousand years must pass until clocks have shifted one hour, and we have experience on shifting clocks one hour within a year, so I'm sure we can tolerate slippage caused by not having leaps. I'm holding my thumbs up for 2023 and sanity prevailing. -- ++ytti