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  1. 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. ;)

  2. Just read that the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is officially abandoning/abolishing 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. ;)

  3. 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. ;)

  4. 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. ;)

  5. 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. ;)

  6. 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: beflagrant.com/blog/time-round
    #LeapSeconds #LunarTime

  7. 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: beflagrant.com/blog/time-round
    #LeapSeconds #LunarTime

  8. 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: beflagrant.com/blog/time-round
    #LeapSeconds #LunarTime

  9. 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: beflagrant.com/blog/time-round

  10. 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: beflagrant.com/blog/time-round
    #LeapSeconds #LunarTime

  11. I'm trying to determine whether the leap seconds file at hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ 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 hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ which just gives the expiry dates, not the exact times. #LeapSeconds #IERS #UTC #TAI

  12. I'm trying to determine whether the leap seconds file at hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ 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 hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ which just gives the expiry dates, not the exact times. #LeapSeconds #IERS #UTC #TAI

  13. I'm trying to determine whether the leap seconds file at hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ 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 hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ which just gives the expiry dates, not the exact times. #LeapSeconds #IERS #UTC #TAI

  14. I'm trying to determine whether the leap seconds file at hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ 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 hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ which just gives the expiry dates, not the exact times. #LeapSeconds #IERS #UTC #TAI

  15. 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: wia.org.au/members/broadcast/w)

  16. 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: wia.org.au/members/broadcast/w)

  17. 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: wia.org.au/members/broadcast/w)

  18. 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: wia.org.au/members/broadcast/w)

  19. 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: wia.org.au/members/broadcast/w)

  20. ""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.

    #LeapSeconds

    arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  21. ""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.

    #LeapSeconds

    arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  22. ""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.

    #LeapSeconds

    arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  23. ""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.

    #LeapSeconds

    arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  24. ""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.

    #LeapSeconds

    arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  25. 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 arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  26. 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 arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  27. 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 arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  28. 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 arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

  29. 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."

    #time #UTC #LeapSecond #astronomy

    nature.com/articles/d41586-022

  30. 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."

    #time #UTC #LeapSecond #astronomy

    nature.com/articles/d41586-022

  31. 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."

    #time #UTC #LeapSecond #astronomy

    nature.com/articles/d41586-022

  32. 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."

    #time #UTC #LeapSecond #astronomy

    nature.com/articles/d41586-022

  33. 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."

    #time #UTC #LeapSecond #astronomy

    nature.com/articles/d41586-022

  34. @ldnicolasmay, I can only imagine the consternation of having to deal with and account for #LeapSeconds.

  35. @ldnicolasmay, I can only imagine the consternation of having to deal with and account for #LeapSeconds.

  36. @ldnicolasmay, I can only imagine the consternation of having to deal with and account for #LeapSeconds.

  37. Record-short days could speed up debate on leap seconds - An atomic clock based on a fountain of atoms. (credit: National Science... - arstechnica.com/?p=1871355 #leapsecondsmearing #leapseconds #leapsecond #science #policy #earth #tech #meta

  38. Record-short days could speed up debate on leap seconds - An atomic clock based on a fountain of atoms. (credit: National Science... - arstechnica.com/?p=1871355 #leapsecondsmearing #leapseconds #leapsecond #science #policy #earth #tech #meta

  39. 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?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_tim

    Danke an $coworker für den ruinierten Vormittag!

  40. 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?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_tim

    Danke an $coworker für den ruinierten Vormittag!