Casper, I once asked a person knowledgeable with power generation economics who pays for the electricity during a leap second? He said "you do". Proof is left as an exercise for the student.
Dave Casper H.S. Dik wrote: > Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Whenever politicians decide to change the date on which summer time >>starts or ends, new timezone files are distributed and installed. So the >>infrastructure to deal with changes in the relationship between >>international and local time is already there. > > > But it barely works as witnessed when the US changed the rules > yet again; it caused Californian off-peak rates to shift an > hour because the meters could not deal with the change > (so the off-peak rate was charged for some of peak and vice > versa) > > >>And if the OS already deals with translation from and to local time, why >>can't it deal with leap seconds in a similar manner. It already adds a >>number of seconds to the international time anyway. >>Having a fixed second length really is the cleanest way of doing things. > > > Because the on-disk timestamp format cannot be retroactively changed. > > Casper _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
