Posted by
timothy
on from the seconds-all-taste-the-same dept.
ygslash writes "The IERS has announced today that, after seven years, there will once again be a leap second this year. On December 31, 2005, the time 12:59 will last for 61 seconds."
Two questions
by
roystgnr
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Isn't this sort of thing calculable farther in advance? There shouldn't be a whole lot of angular momentum being added or subtracted from the Earth's rotation.
Do I need a new glibc? Or any other POSIX library, for that matter? If this is a new announcement then presumably every implementation of mktime(), localtime(), gmtime(), etc. needs to be updated.
Re:Two questions
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lachlan76
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Actually you'd just set the NTP server you're syncing with one second ahead. I don't think that a once-every-seven-year event is going to be worthy of kernel changes, especially since your time is probably off by more than one second as it is.
Re:Off by one error
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anthony_dipierro
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Seriously, you'd think they'd pick a less conspicuous second to make the switch. Instead they picked the one second of the year that people notice more than any other. At least it'll only affect the New Year's count for the Brits. Here in the US we won't even be heading to the party yet.
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Isn't this sort of thing calculable farther in advance? There shouldn't be a whole lot of angular momentum being added or subtracted from the Earth's rotation.
Do I need a new glibc? Or any other POSIX library, for that matter? If this is a new announcement then presumably every implementation of mktime(), localtime(), gmtime(), etc. needs to be updated.
Seriously, you'd think they'd pick a less conspicuous second to make the switch. Instead they picked the one second of the year that people notice more than any other. At least it'll only affect the New Year's count for the Brits. Here in the US we won't even be heading to the party yet.