There is already a time scale that is extensively used that has no leap
seconds - GPS. Software could use that rather than UTC for its root time.
David
On 7/2/12 1:59 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message<20120702025355.ga22...@puck.nether.net>, "Majdi S. Abbas" writes:
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:24:33AM +1000, Jim Palfreyman wrote:
Understand that yesterday's situation was specific to one
operating system, which accepted a patch to its kernel a few years ago
that was never really tested.
[...]
I don't want to see anyone hurt, but pandering to bad software
just gets you more bad software. At some point quality has to matter.
Testing software for correct handling of leap-seconds is a major undertaking
which very few people have the kit and skill to do.
You can get better quality either by paying a lot more money for
software or by removing or reducing the impact of this "gottcha"
feature from the programs environment.
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