s...@ucolick.org said:
> This idea pushes extra complexity into every implementation of low level
> kernel-space software, firmware, and hardware. That's nice as a policy for
> full employment of programmers, but it's hard to justify by any other
> metric. Instead those low level places should b
Hi Tom,
> Does your proposal allow for a Zero leap second
Nope, LSEM avoids the zero leap second situation. That's the idea: to always
have a leap second. Either an add or a delete, at the end of every month. The
beauty is that it wouldn't violate how UTC is already defined. Leap seconds
would
Steve Allen wrote:
> This idea pushes extra complexity into every implementation of low
> level kernel-space software, firmware, and hardware. That's nice as a
> policy for full employment of programmers, but it's hard to justify by
> any other metric. Instead those low level places should be as
On Thu 2016-07-21T10:27:57 -0700, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> Time to mention this again...
> Every UTC-aware device would 1) know how to reliably insert or
> delete a leap second, because bugs would be found by developers within
> a month or two, not by end-users years or decades in the future, and
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 10:27 -0700, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Time to mention this again...
>
> If we adopted the LSEM (Leap Second Every Month) model then none of
> this would be a problem. The idea is not to decide *if* there will be
> leap second, but to force every month to have a leap second. The
Hi Tom,
This message is an excellent example of why we invited you to speak at the
Science of Time symposium ;-)
It was a shame you couldn’t make it, since you would have made an excellent
meeting even stronger. But future meetings in the series seem very likely and
let me register an invitati
Time to mention this again...
If we adopted the LSEM (Leap Second Every Month) model then none of this would
be a problem. The idea is not to decide *if* there will be leap second, but to
force every month to have a leap second. The IERS decision is then what the
*sign* of the leap second shoul
