[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Ian Batten]

On 19 Feb 2011, at 22:38, Joe Gwinn wrote:

>

> Not necessarily.  A Rubidium clock will take a few thousand years to  

> drift by a second.  So, we cannot assume that isolated machines have  

> drifty clocks.


I think that before conjecturing the requires of isolated machines  
which have no source of leap seconds (not even manual application via  
a commandline interface "leap_next_31_dec") and yet are attached to  
better than 0.02ppm clocks, someone should provide an example of an  
isolated machine that is attached to a 0.02ppm clock.  And why  
everyone else should deal with the complexity to save that one  
computer the $100 bill for a GPS receiver.

ian

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/attachments/20110219/b2898aac/attachment.html>