[time-nuts] [LEAPSECS] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

[bownes]

A second here or there is a very big deal to those of us in the financial and database worlds. 

Aside from the well known instances involving electronic trading I have customers fighting over cabinet positions and cable lengths to place processors closer to disk drives and on switch paths with 10ns less latency. 





> On Jul 25, 2016, at 16:57, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Apple's new file system timestamps files with nanosecond resolution.   A lot of Linux file systems also do that now.   The nanosecond ain't what it used to be...  I can imagine people wanting picosecond timestamps in the near future.  Who knows,  maybe we'll have something like NTP compensating for light-speed delay for the gap between the read/write heads and disk surface (assuming we still use heads and surfaces)  ; -)
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> Except that you still have the issue of “what time did this file get changed”. To most of us, that’s not really a big deal. A second either way … who cares.                           
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