[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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