In a message written on Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:47:52PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Notice that in inertial frame dragging context it's provably impossible to synchronize oscillators. Luckily, Earth has negligible frame dragging, for the kind of accuracy we currently need.
I think everyone on this list is going in the wrong direction with this issue. What you're all arguing over is the "correct time" for some defintion of "correct". I'm a bit more practical. How about we write software so a leap second doesn't crash everything? We can then allow the time nuts get back to arguing which leap seconds we should use, or time reference, or whatever. I'd even take off by a second but didn't crash, over crashed. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/