It says -
"Until now the solution has been to introduce a 'leap second', in other
words to stop 'official/scientific' time (Co-ordinated Universal Time,
'UTC'), for one second every so often."
Hold the phone. "to stop 'official/scientific' time"?!? How worrisome is
it that the chair of the committee considering the Leap Second question
could make a statement like that? What, do you suppose, are they
considering? If you asked me "Should we cease the practice of stopping
'official/scientific' time every so often" I'd have to say yes. But of
course thats not whats happening, or, at least, not what's suppose to be
happening. It *is* whats happening in NTP (the second count "freezes"),
and in POSIX it doesn't just stop - it backs up. Maybe you should fix
those practices, but those are not UTC.
-Brooks
On 2015-01-28 02:21 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
The European CEPT Electronic Communications Committee
ruminates on the leap second situation at ITU-R WRC-15
http://apps.ero.dk/eccnews/jan-2015/wrc-15-universal-time.html
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