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F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Subject: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: r.engehausen at gmail.com (Roy)
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:15:45 -0700
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On 7/4/2012 10:06 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
> On 7/5/2012 12:47 AM, Roy wrote:
>> Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, 
>> just create your own time system.
>>
>> You could call it OpenTime.  OpenTime will use NTP servers where the 
>> Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care 
>> about leap seconds.  That way the consumer can chose to connect his 
>> machines to UTC or OpenTime.
>>
>
> Oblig:  http://xkcd.com/927/
>
> - Pete
>
>

Right on!

References:
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: roll at Stupi.SE (Peter Lothberg)
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu)
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: rbf+nanog at panix.com (Brett Frankenberger)
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: r.engehausen at gmail.com (Roy)
- F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
  - From: alter3d at alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis)

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