[time-nuts] IEEE Spectrum Magazine interviews one of our own...

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed May 25 10:16:34 UTC 2011


In message <4DDCA21F.2060808 at sfr.fr>, cook michael writes:

>   As someone who has been supporting major industrial, banking, airline 
>systems for the last 30 years, I remember NO down time, or outage due to 
>leap second insertion. 

Only the last five years really matter, because tightly time-synchronized
systems only spread in the last approx ten years, and the first
leap second after that happened was five years ago.

This is a problem that will only get worse as more and more systems
are modernized.

Poul-Henning

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