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

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa@latt.net> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:33:35PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote:

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4 years. These things are supposed to be synced to a NTP source anyway.

Easiest solution is just remove leap second functionality from mainline code, and make it something you have to special-compile for.

Please reconcile these two statements.

Thanks,

--msa

Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of the Internet die every couple of years.