In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Quadibloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Managing the Internet: > - A leap second means that millions of network router operators, in > addition to periodically referencing their clocks to time signals, > must also explicitly make an adjustment for the leap second at the > proper time to forestall problems. I don't understand this one. Routers don't need accurate time in order to route, and NTP is quite capable of signalling the leap seconds with no operator intervention. My impression is that it is the financial services industry, and associated legislators, that have the problem, in that they want levels of simultaneity that approach the limits of current technology, whilst being run by people who are not scientists and therefore don't understand the reasons for civil time/TAI differences and expect to have their times in civil time. Given that 1ms ~= 200km cable delay, it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually reach a point where 1ms steps are unacceptable for trading within a single city, simply because it is possible. Databases that rely on monotonic time are a problem, but mainly becuase coders don't know about leap seconds and operating systems don't provide access to TAI. Historically discrepancies would probably have been allowed to accumulate until the next reboot. These issues would arise for SNA networks, not just for TCP/IP ones. They would even apply for a fully connected network, which wouldn't need an internet in the more general, and original, sense. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
