[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080913.132138.-1025553149.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" write
s:


>Cool...  A gigasecond is around 31 years, a megasecond is ~11 days and

>a kilosecond is about 17 minutes.  How would you keep such divergent

>times strait?  Let's meet for dinner in about 200 kiloseconds?


Actually, gigasecond parties are cool.

The local Unix User group (DKUUG) threw a "uptime(1)" party to
celebrate when time_t rolled over 1e9 seconds a couple of years
back:

	http://www.uptime1.dk/

I delivered the count-down display using a FreeBSD computer with a
Rb+GPS timelock:

	http://www.superusers.dk/superusers/nyt/images/r0013703.jpg

Poul-Henning


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