[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

[David McGaw]

There is already a time scale that is extensively used that has no leap 
seconds - GPS.  Software could use that rather than UTC for its root time.

David

On 7/2/12 1:59 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<20120702025355.GA22513 at puck.nether.net>, "Majdi S. Abbas" writes:
>> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:24:33AM +1000, Jim Palfreyman wrote:
>> 	Understand that yesterday's situation was specific to one
>> operating system, which accepted a patch to its kernel a few years ago
>> that was never really tested.
> [...]
>
>> 	I don't want to see anyone hurt, but pandering to bad software
>> just gets you more bad software.  At some point quality has to matter.
> Testing software for correct handling of leap-seconds is a major undertaking
> which very few people have the kit and skill to do.
>
> You can get better quality either by paying a lot more money for
> software or by removing or reducing the impact of this "gottcha"
> feature from the programs environment.
>