[LEAPSECS] Leap seconds ain't broken, but most implementations are broken

[Brooks Harris]

On 2017-01-07 02:50 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
> leapsecs-request at leapsecond.com said:
>> Right, that's where I say its incredible nothing was done since 1972.  The
>> Leap Second history is fundamental, and it seems to me an obvious  missing
>> link. How could it have gone ignored all this time?
> Back in the old days, computer clocks weren't accurate enough to care about
> leap seconds.
>
> In the early 80s, the NTP equivalent at Xerox was only good to a second and
> it was only used at boot time.
>
> By the time computers and networks (and a few geeks) were good enough to
> notice, it was too late.
By the 1990s many systems were capable of it, and many were discussing 
how to fix it. Around 2000 we started into the "eliminate Leap Seconds 
debate", which essentially inhibited all development for 15 years. Too 
bad, but here we are now.
-Brooks
>
> Anybody know when NTP supported it's first leap second?
>
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