[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Steve Allen]

On Sat 2014-01-11T10:39:32 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:

> This allows all kinds of implementations, except one that assigns a

> unique value to the leap second.  It allows one to repeat a second

> (either the last one of the day of the leap second, or the first one

> of the next day (both common) or really any other second).  It also

> allows the google run a little fast until you accumulate the new

> second.


actually a little slow, which means that Google's leap smear
appropriately evokes how the dialog from Disney's Haunted
Mansion is analogous to leap seconds in POSIX:

    Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as
    though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis.  Is this haunted
    room actually stretching?  Or is it your imagination?  And
    consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows,
    and no doors.  Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a
    way out!  Of course, there's always my way.

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