On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:15 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not a butthead thing to do to assert that the Internet's stability in this matter now outweighs an arbitrary and abstract argument among timekeepers. We matter more than they do, now. If they want to keep a more true Solar Time they can do so; we can run on atomic and put this silly notion of trying to say Sun-centric behind us. This is the 21st century.
Leapsecondo Delenda Est!
I don't see why everyday computers, servers, and routers need the functionality to add (or subtract) an arbitrary second once every 3 or 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. The fact there is a 400 page book on the subject really makes me wonder how well the average kernel hacker is doing the implementation. (Oh wait, we saw EXACTLY how well it was done). All this is a time bomb (lame I know) waiting to go off every few years there is a leap second. We get to find out which servers are running which out-of-date kernels that attempt to implement some arcane time function practically no one cares about. (Sorry time aficionados. I appreciate your work, but I'd rather just look it up and not trust my computer to calculate it.)