[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Fri Sep 23 10:45:59 EDT 2016


Bloomberg will smear over 2000 seconds after the leap.
https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/4/Bloomberg-Leap-Second_December-2016.pdf

They are one of many cloud and financial operations who have,
ironically, decided that the non-precision timekeeping through the 1960s
(and of POSIX) is preferable to the precise time choice made by the CCIR.

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