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

[Rex]

Let's see if my mail client wraps the looong link too...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=051911

I was expecting a video, but it's still nice as an mp3


On 5/24/2011 7:00 PM, Tom Holmes wrote:
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> 911>  Podcast: When Will We Get Serious About the Leap Second?
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> We all go along with the agreement to add a 366th day to the calendar every
> fourth year. But few people outside of computer scientists and managers of
> computer chip foundries-whose operation depends on fraction-of-a-second
> precision-have even heard of the leap second. Host Steven Cherry talks with
> Poul-Henning Kamp, an independent software developer who maintains the
> principal network time servers for his home nation of Denmark. Among the
> many questions Kamp addresses is why a standard way of dealing with this
> tiny but crucial adjustment in time has yet to be enacted.
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