[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Paul Sheer]

On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 11:08 -0500, Joe Gwinn wrote:

> At 3:59 PM +0000 2/19/11, Ian Batten wrote:

> >On 19 Feb 2011, at 15:41, Gerard Ashton wrote:

> >

> >>  On 2/19/2011 10:24 AM, Joe Gwinn wrote, in part:

> >>>  I have not been following the proposal in detail, but a key issue 

> >>>to the POSIX community is that their timescale must be 

> >>>implementable in a totally isolated machine, one having no GPS or 

> >>>internet access.

> >>>



precisely,

this is why leap seconds announced ten years in advanced
are important: they allow for a stand-alone machine, albeit
one that only needs to have it's software upgraded once in
ten years.



> >>>  There are other requirements as well.  This was discussed at 

> >>>length on the Time Nuts reflector, until Tom kicked the thread 

> >>>over to Leap Secs.





> 

> This was beaten to death on the Time Nuts reflector in the thread 

> "Leap seconds and POSIX" around January 2009.

> 


what was the summary?

-paul