[LEAPSECS] UTC going forward, one or two definitions? and what about NTP?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Aug 14 09:37:25 EDT 2013


In message <5700B4E6-4EC1-4DED-872A-A71EC4821266 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>> Well, guess what: They get to use the new high-resolution DUT1

>> product from IERS, so their mean solar time needing systems can

>> be much better and precise than they could otherwise.

>

>And presumably you will be helping to ensure their implementation

>is scalable to the radically increased load? ;-)


Yes, I'll happily make sure they can serve 1 million requests per second
on a regular low-cost server. (http://varnish.org)

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