[time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

2011-05-24 Thread Tom Holmes
Podcast: When Will We Get Serious About the Leap Second? We

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2011-05-24 Thread Rex
Let's see if my mail client wraps the looong link too... http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051911 I was expecting a video, but it's still nice as an mp3 On 5/24/2011 7:00 PM, Tom Holm

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2011-05-24 Thread cook michael
Le 25/05/2011 04:00, Tom Holmes a écrit : Steven Cherry is exaggerating when he says " most systems go down for planned maintenance instead of trying to deal with leap seconds in real time." As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline systems for the last 30 years,

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2011-05-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <4ddca21f.2060...@sfr.fr>, cook michael writes: > As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline >systems for the last 30 years, I remember NO down time, or outage due to >leap second insertion. Only the last five years really matter, because tightly time-sy

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2011-05-25 Thread Christopher Quarksnow
About Steven Cherry, here is a famous example of system outage due to leap seconds : http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/news_leap_second_causing_new_years_rac_node_crashes.htm Also Google Android is plagued with an issue visible on phones like the Motorola Droid or HTC EVO 4G, where the time di

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2011-05-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Christopher, Thanks for those interesting links. Note PHK's original ACM article is: The recent IEEE mention is: With audio:

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2011-05-26 Thread ehydra
That is the solution: http://xkcd.com/162/ - Henry -- ehydra.dyndns.info Tom Van Baak schrieb: Hi Christopher, Thanks for those interesting links. Note PHK's original ACM article is: The recent IEEE mention is: