folks at metafilter have been discussing the video rant about programming time at http://www.metafilter.com/135241/This-way-lies-madness
Not surprisingly it is more ranting, but near the end is another indication of how programmers who do not have to manage real-time systems feel about the institution of leap seconds in 1972: to buggery with all the scientific systems that made the obviously unreasonable assumption that any given second is exactly as long as any other This amplifies the impression that also comes from Google's leap smear and the recent tendency of Linux distros to prefer chrony to ntpd (because chrony allows bigger frequency shifts and avoids leaps). To wit, admins of cloud-based, virtualized systems find it more expedient to change the duration of seconds than to follow the constant-duration seconds in the UTC specification as given by TF.460, and so they are doing that. It remains less clear what sorts of strategies are being adopted by admins of systems that must perform real-time operations, for those admins are not talking about their coping mechanisms. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs