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(re subject: does it go `Ding!' when there's Stuff?) On Feb 20, 2010, at 00:30 , Larry Wall wrote: > but an astronomer? But no, many millions of computers have to > accommodate > to the convenience of a very few people. And most computers still > don't > know how to do even that accommodation, since POSIX time is blissfully > unaware of leap seconds... > > Sorry, you pushed one of my hot buttons. Grrr! :) Not just yours; quite a few of us wish NTP would return to the demesne of mad scientists and astronomers, to be replaced by a saner (i.e. non- leap-second) version of SNTP. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NHThread Previous | Thread Next