Re: ideas for new UTC rules

ool.ntp.org/ for more info. -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparing Time Scales

ds field to go up to 60? I would agree. Same idea. -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparing Time Scales

any nanoseconds are we into this day. When executing a leap second insertion, we would get all the way up to 86,400,999,999,999 nano seconds in the day before we wrapped around that field to zero and incremented the day number (one nanosecond later). -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wikipedia "Leap Seconds" collaboration

y possible for people on this list to help improve the wikipedia's coverage of articles related to time keeping, but the wikipedia article is not an appropriate place for a group attempting to hash out a consensus on a mailing list to record all of its thoughts.

distribute TAI as well (was Re: [LEAPSECS] Risks of change to UTC )

t causing a semantic mess and without breaking any properly implemented existing systems. We could start down this road without delay. My hope is that proceeding down this path could make everyone happy. -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internet-Draft on UTC-SLS

1 day's warning before the UTC leap second insertion if accomplishing it could be split between the 50,000 seconds before UTC midnight and the 50,000 seconds after UTC midnight. Hmm -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The real problem with leap seconds

about what time it is UT to better than one second, then UTC is probably not the right time scale for you to be using (at least not directly). If a fuzz of +/- 1 second doesn't bother you, then you can pretend that UTC is UT, and things are easier. For the time scale experts on this list, did

Re: The real problem with leap seconds

and 15 years advance notice as to what exactly the change will be. (I suspect though I won't get that much notice.) "leap hours" are a horrible idea, whether they be leap hours inserted in to some UTC-like global standard, or by local jurisdictions. Well,

Re: The real problem with leap seconds

of 16-bit registers (PDP-11s, don't you know). -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: went pretty dang smoothly at this end

nuary-2006 UTC ? -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

knowing what time it is

and a table of historical and pending leap seconds. So that's all ideal. But we're in a mess now. Is it reasonable to hope we may be able to somehow get to the ideal I've described? In maybe 10 or 15 years? It seems what is needed most is education. -Tim

eBay official time (was Re: Precise time over time )

is larger, astronomers or eBay snipers?) Which led me to wonder: Has eBay thought about the upcoming leap second and how are they going to handle it? Anyone on this list know? Anyone have a good contact at eBay that we could ask? -Tim Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]