Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com wrote:
Computers are not designed to cope with random time drifts,
Mine are. Please don't make blanket statements.
--
Michael Spacefalcon,
formerly Michael Sokolov,
who uses rubber seconds and has just recently
gone through the system
On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote:
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com wrote:
Computers are not designed to cope with random time drifts,
Mine are. Please don't make blanket statements.
I think this was more of a comment about how fragile our modern
Warner Losh i...@bsdimp.com wrote:
I think this was more of a comment about how fragile our modern
infrastructure is when confronted with a Leap Second.
Yes, I agree that the evidence points in the direction of your
statement. But we probably disagree on what the right solution is.
Per my
Michael Spacefalcon wrote a standardized, widely recognized and adopted
scheme for converting leap seconds to rubber seconds is what we need
but also mentioned a normal computer motherboard quartz crystal
oscillator. But of course there are systems that are far more accurate than
a normal
Gerard Ashton ashto...@comcast.net wrote:
Michael Spacefalcon wrote a standardized, widely recognized and adopted
scheme for converting leap seconds to rubber seconds is what we need
but also mentioned a normal computer motherboard quartz crystal
oscillator. But of course there are systems
On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote:
Warner Losh i...@bsdimp.com wrote:
I think this was more of a comment about how fragile our modern
infrastructure is when confronted with a Leap Second.
Yes, I agree that the evidence points in the direction of your
statement. But
Michael Spacefalcon gave an overview of how a high precision system (which
he incorrectly supposed I possessed or ran) could interface to a low
precision system. But if a rubber time scale ever became law, high precision
systems might have to interface with each other indirectly through the
rubber
Michael Spacefalcon said:
Suppose that a rubberization scheme were officially defined as
something like this: At such and such precise time, the length of the
civil second changes from exactly one SI second to exactly 1.001 SI
seconds. At such and such precise subsequent time, it changes back
