[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <52DA9966.6010806 at hfx.eastlink.ca>, "Eric R. Smith" writes:


>In the rationale there is a discussion of leap seconds, including the

>charming statement:

>

>"...most systems are probably not synchronized to any standard time

>reference. Therefore, it is inappropriate to require that a time

>represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of

>seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch."


That made a lot of sense at the time:  Operators would have had to
manually update systems to know about the leap seconds.

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