Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 153, Issue 3

2020-07-15 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
> So the next leapsecond will be handled by code written by people who are still in school, and have to rely on this list archive for reports of *positive* leap seconds. I predict a scramble to SLS by the remaining Cloud Vendors when this happens. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http:

Re: [LEAPSECS] the inception of leap seconds

2018-08-15 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
k to 1971. Maybe time travel is hard because you need to set the dial using UT2, but the UTC-UT2 difference is known only in the future of the traveler wanting to back? (I am in Singapore, which is perpetually on Summer Time (UTC+08), although we are 103E) -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208

Re: [LEAPSECS] The Fuzzball

2017-01-10 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > Sanjeev Gupta writes: > > >Parting Shot (quoted from the Paper): > >The ideal next-generation Fuzzball would be programmed in C, support the > >Unix run-time environment, TCP/IP and I

Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 124, Issue 17

2017-01-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
print macro just adds "10" to the year field. :-) -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] alternative to smearing

2017-01-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
... And yet planes refuse to fall out of the sky :-) -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] Time math libraries, UTC to TAI

2016-12-27 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
ded it, so that everyone > wouldn't have to update his own table. > If I have understood you correctly, this is publicly available, based on the IERS Bulletin C: https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap Seconds schedule prior to 1972

2016-04-23 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
assover is DST", or "Venezuela decided at dinner time not to start DST tonight". If only the zone files were a Turing-complete language ... -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@lea

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap Seconds schedule prior to 1972

2016-04-23 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
pelled out. Since DTAI is defined as 0 on January 1, > 1958, an entry would be > > 2436204 0 # 31 Dec 1957 > How far back do we have to go before we have multiple leap seconds *per day* ? -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane __

Re: [LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

2015-06-30 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
we speed up the Cesium Hyperfine Transition, please? It might be easier than resolving the Leap Second Debate :-) Or we could all move to London? The UKIP may not like it, but they can shift to Greece, I supoose. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

2015-06-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
to your visble age. A Leap Second may not be noticed. Note that according to India, Pakistan has no border with China, it is Indian teritorry. YMMV. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS

Re: [LEAPSECS] Look before you don't leap

2015-05-20 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
at by bored children. That is, if children still exist. Children will exist, if for no other reason that someone will have to memorize POSIX time rules; the way I was forced to memorize Roman numbers. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS | Hacker News

2015-05-20 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
factors, got rid of the pesky 32.xxx). -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] a Japanese leap smear?

2015-03-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
on the APNIC channel on Youtube: http://bit.ly/1w6hZbg Starts at Minute 51. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] Comments on predictions for this century

2015-01-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
. The provisional information for 2014 means that 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, Michel Jarraud, the WMO secretary general, said in a press release. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-06 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
radians. ... which I think is the clearest definition I have heard so far. Note that seconds are also a unit of angles, so UT1 seconds being a measure of angle is not strange. Thank you, Tony. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-06 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message CAHZk5WfKSLMy77HK1Vsvk9PQ5v= tpb0rzuri8j4kmcezooa...@mail.gmail.com , Sanjeev Gupta writes: Note that seconds are also a unit of angles, so UT1 seconds being a measure of angle is not strange

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-06 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
not be pointing the scope on Mt Palomar anyway. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-10-30 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Constant. We use the h-bar more often, but do not re-purpose the original name. Give it a new name, please. Independent of what the fundamental unit is. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS

Re: [LEAPSECS] Changing the name of UTC

2014-10-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
, let us not have the is this pre-1959 inches, or post issue. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] Changing the name of UTC

2014-10-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
evil method. It still pains me to have to say UTC before 2021 was loosly coupled to the sun, but now it floats freely -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6

Re: [LEAPSECS] Changing the name of UTC

2014-10-17 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
. There is no getting around that. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs

Re: [LEAPSECS] Standards of time zones -Brooks Harris

2014-01-08 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
zeal to become such an authority. You want zeal? ZEAL? I volunteer :-) I assume you also want correctness, in which case I withdraw my nomination :-) -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS

Re: [LEAPSECS] Rubber seconds

2012-01-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
no agreed upon rubberization scheme? Background that may be helpful: Ask runs/coordinates the pool.ntp.orginfrastructure, providing NTP to the masses. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS

Re: [LEAPSECS] Metrologia on time

2011-08-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
occasions during this year. Much more than 8 changes this year. And some of the changes are unclear till after they have gone into effect (including conflicting info from Ministries and Airlines). -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane

Re: [LEAPSECS] Looking-glass, through

2011-01-13 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
on this list. And what good is the atom part of an atomic clock, if it can't even handle nano? /foot-in-mouth Still waiting for the flying cars I was promised ... -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 180: Revision of IERS Earth Rotation Series effective 1 February 2011

2011-01-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
that I have been asked by my team to take them out for lunch and drinks today, to mark this agreement. About 13:00 Singapore Time, we will raise a toast to this. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 04:33, Rob Seaman sea...@noao.edu wrote

Re: [LEAPSECS] UTC Redefinition Advanced

2010-10-25 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
True Cosmic Time would that be ? My apologies, I left out the smiley. I know there is no such Time, I was being tongue-in-cheek. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http

Re: [LEAPSECS] UTC Redefinition Advanced

2010-10-24 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
, but it seems less of a problem than I assumed. I am still opposed, in principle, to letting NTP time (for example) diverge from The One True Cosmic Time; but my principles are cheap, and my engineering work does not suffer under Jonathan's formulation. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http

Re: [LEAPSECS] UTC is derived from TAI

2010-03-14 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
from desire? The Sakyamuni's last words are said to be: *Remember, everything is impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence.* -- Sanjeev Gupta http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http

Re: [LEAPSECS] 2008-12-31T23:59:60Z

2008-12-23 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Folks, Any help on how to use a Linux PC driving a large monitor/LCD projector to show a group of school children the leap second? It will be in daylight hours here (Singapore). -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 On Tue 2008-12-23T20:08:06 -0800, Brian Garrett hath writ: examples of how