#leapseconds — Public Fediverse posts
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Just read that the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is officially abandoning/abolishing #LeapSeconds by the year 2035, because they are just so disruptive to computer systems.
Tell me you can't get a handle on software bugs without telling me you can't get a handle on software bugs. ;)
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Just read that the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is officially abandoning/abolishing #LeapSeconds by the year 2035, because they are just so disruptive to computer systems.
Tell me you can't get a handle on software bugs without telling me you can't get a handle on software bugs. ;)
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I wrote a post about recent news on the subject of time. Just when you thought that all you had to have programming indigestion about was time zones: https://www.beflagrant.com/blog/time-roundup-2024-04-08
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I'm trying to determine whether the leap seconds file at https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat expires at the start of 2024-12-28 or the end. I can't find anything tha pins it down, let alone a primary/official source. The closest I can find is https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/BULLETINC.GUIDE.html which just gives the expiry dates, not the exact times. #LeapSeconds #IERS #UTC #TAI
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Just heard this on the WIA news (via 146.650MHz FM repeater)… apparently with the removal of #LeapSeconds from time-keeping, the proposal is to replace these with #LeapMinutes -- NOOO!!! (source: https://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/display.php?file_id=wianews-2023-11-26)
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Just heard this on the WIA news (via 146.650MHz FM repeater)… apparently with the removal of #LeapSeconds from time-keeping, the proposal is to replace these with #LeapMinutes -- NOOO!!! (source: https://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/display.php?file_id=wianews-2023-11-26)
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""In the current Leap Second Debate, there are rational arguments, focused on practical considerations, and there is a certain unspoken unease, emerging from the symbolic substrata of the issues involved," [Rev. Paul Gabor, astrophysicist and vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona] writes, seemingly on behalf of those unspeaking."
Forget the provenance-- it seems a valid point.
The tech whining sounds a bit lame.
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""In the current Leap Second Debate, there are rational arguments, focused on practical considerations, and there is a certain unspoken unease, emerging from the symbolic substrata of the issues involved," [Rev. Paul Gabor, astrophysicist and vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona] writes, seemingly on behalf of those unspeaking."
Forget the provenance-- it seems a valid point.
The tech whining sounds a bit lame.
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Ars Technica: Leap seconds could become leap minutes, despite pushback from Russians, Vatican https://arstechnica.com/?p=1980922 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #universalcoordinatedtime #internationalatomictime #networktimeprotocol #leapsecondsmearing #judahlevine #leapseconds #atomictime #leapminute #leapsecond #astronomy #Science #Tech
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Just no! We have already dealt with this crap, but some want us to spend effort on undealing with it, and then get hit by a brick wall in a hundred years. Can we please focus our timekeeping efforts on making sure we survive the #epochalypse in #Y2038 instead? Two of these things to fix at the same time will be too much. And I am speaking as a person who write code dealing with #leapseconds https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/leap-seconds-could-become-leap-minutes-despite-pushback-from-russians-vatican/
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The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
"The practice of adding #LeapSeconds to official #clocks to keep them in sync with #Earth’s rotation will be put on hold from 2035, the world’s foremost #metrology body has decided."
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@ldnicolasmay, I can only imagine the consternation of having to deal with and account for #LeapSeconds.
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Record-short days could speed up debate on leap seconds - An atomic clock based on a fountain of atoms. (credit: National Science... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871355 #leapsecondsmearing #leapseconds #leapsecond #science #policy #earth #tech #meta
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TIL: Unix #Timestamp ist nicht "Sekunden seit X", sondern beachtet #LeapSeconds
Wer hat sich das ausgedacht und was für Drogen hat er dabei intus gehabt? Timestamps die doppelt auftreten?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds
Danke an $coworker für den ruinierten Vormittag!