23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
11:08 p.m.
Let me be the first to say that the International Earth Rotation Service
has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
the 31st December, due to the earth slowly slowing down. It's fun to
listen to see how the time beeps handle it; will your GPS clock display
23:59:60, or will it go nuts like my last one did (I had to power cycle
the thing)?
My recording of the last one: horsfall.org/leapsecond.webm .
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
23 Dec
23 Dec
11:19 p.m.
On 24 Dec 2016 10:08 +1100, from dave(a)horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
Let me be the first to say that the International
Earth Rotation Service
has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
the 31st December,
I told a coworker about leap seconds the other day, in the middle of
discussing software that doesn't understand 24:00:00 as a time of day.
For a while, I believe he thought that I was pulling a prank on him.
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)
24 Dec
24 Dec
1:33 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Let me be the first to say that the International
Earth Rotation Service
has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on
the 31st December, due to the earth slowly slowing down.
A year and half ago, a running Multics emulation (Multics, so slightly on
topic) was crashed by the leap second. An improbable race condition in a in
a messaging library used by the DPS8M emulator fired an assertion, bring
the whole thing down.
-- Charles
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