Leap-second scare stories

2005-07-30 Thread Markus Kuhn
in http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_7_21.html where he admits that he never could find out precisely why the problem had occurred and who was responsible for it. I'm sorry, but I find these three badly documented second or third-hand rumours of leap-second scare stories neither very scary nor

Re: Leap-second scare stories

2005-07-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Markus Kuhn writes: And in 2003, a leap-second bug made GPS receivers from Motorola Inc. briefly show customers the time as half past 62 o'clock. It conveniently omits the minor detail that this long preannounced Motorola software bug actually manifested itself