[LEAPSECS] Windows 10 time

[Steve Allen]

As noted previously, Microsoft has improved timekeeping in Windows 10
and as of 2018-06-01 FILETIME is now TAI - 37 seconds instead of UTC.

Yesterday Dan Cuomo posted a blog entry
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Networking-Blog/How-NOT-to-test-the-Windows-Time-Service/ba-p/411592
which has explicit apologies for how bad time once was on Microsoft
and refers back to a February post
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Networking-Blog/Top-10-Networking-Features-in-Windows-Server-2019-10-Accurate/ba-p/339739
which states that Microsoft will not smear (except, of course, when the
system is configured to run the old way without leap seconds) with
references to financial regulation agencies and Matsakis, Levine, Lombardi
at ION last year.

I am impressed that Microsoft has managed to go somewhere that POSIX
still refuses to go.

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