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

[Mark Spencer]

I'm not a huge fan of leap seconds for enterprise computing enviornments unless there is a regulatory or other legal requirement for the system time to exactly match legal time.

I'm quite happy that my own personal time server didn't support the leap second (:


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On Sun, 1 Jul, 2012 8:24 PM EDT Jim Palfreyman wrote:

>As an astronomer I've been a supporter of the current leap second situation
>and have not really liked the idea of changing.
>
>However, after yesterday I'm thinking of changing my mind.
>
>I quite enjoyed having to go through and change all my clocks (including a
>pendulum clock - now that's a pain!), but then the news came through that
>Amadeus crashed worldwide. Passengers everywhere were left stranded for
>hours because of this.
>
>Y2K all over again - but this time something big happened.
>
>This could also have been serious. Were planes tested in-flight for this? I
>bet they weren't.
>
>Software writers the world over are notorious for not fully testing their
>code, so the leap second situation in our increasingly time-dependent world
>has the potential to one day take a life.
>
>Maybe it is time to swallow this bitter pill and remove the leap second.
>
>I haven't jumped ship yet - but I'm very very close.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Jim Palfreyman
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