Howdy,
I'm wondering who among the leap second aware crowd may be attending
ADASS XV this year in Madrid. Please send responses to me to avoid
cluttering the list. I'm already pushing a birds-of-a-feather
session for VOEvent, but whichever way the proposed assassination of
UTC goes in November,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Tue 2005-08-09T11:57:01 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> For some reason, the acronym POSIX comes to mind :-)
>
>The POSIX time_t corresponds quite well to the way that civil time has
>been maintained throughout history. I doubt that PO
Tom Van Baak said:
> Things are more precise now;
> [...]
> My favorite example is eBay.
eBay is a great example. The eBay snipers are probably the best
example of a significant number of people who ever care what time it
is to a sub-second precision. (I wonder which community is larger,
astro
On Tue 2005-08-09T11:57:01 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
> For some reason, the acronym POSIX comes to mind :-)
The POSIX time_t corresponds quite well to the way that civil time has
been maintained throughout history. I doubt that POSIX could have
done anything with time_t other than to su
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Van Baak writes:
>So my question is this. Would it be reasonable
>to expect that a generation or two from now, the
>common man will need sub-second accuracy?
I've thought about this since your email, and I think we need to
rephrase the question subtly in order
