[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Mon Jul 2 03:08:18 UTC 2012


Completely agree with Brooke and Mike S. This is not the first time that
software developers have dropped the ball and later complained that the
problem is too difficult.

In my experience, nobody assigned time or resources to the problem.

What better group than this to come up with a definitive way to handle
leap seconds if UTC must be used.

How did I use my leap second? I never noticed it - and that's the way
human scale time should be.

Is there any way to do forensic investigations of software that failed?
Can developers be convinced that investigation can be done without
casting blame on anyone? This means keeping the media out of it. Else,
we are condemned to repeat history, in the Santayanan sense.

Bill Hawkins - who would like to declare independence of time, but his
               body won't let him.




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