[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers (POSIX time)

[Joe Gwinn]

At 10:49 PM +0000 2/19/11, Ian Batten wrote:

>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.


The issue isn't money, it's access to the sky.

Joe Gwinn