[LEAPSECS] My FOSDEM slides

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Tue Mar 3 16:06:28 EST 2015


Paul Hirose wrote:
>> <https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/technical_aspects_of_leap_second_propagation_and_evaluation/>
>>
>
> I recommend Leap Second Handling (1), "Enumeration of UTC seconds when
> inserting a leap second" be modified to half second steps:
>
> 2015-06-30 23:59:59.0
> 2015-06-30 23:59:59.5
> 2015-06-30 23:59:60.0
> 2015-06-30 23:59:60.5
> 2015-07-01 00:00:00.0
> 2015-07-01 00:00:00.5
> 2015-07-01 00:00:01.0
>
> That makes clear the correct notation for events inside a leap second.

Good idea! I think I'll pick this up for future versions of the slides.

Thanks,

Martin
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