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You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems (cio.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the leap-groundhog-saw-his-shadow dept.

itwbennett writes: As previously discussed here, the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) met "for nearly the entire month of November, and one of the hot-button issues [was] what to do about the leap second." But, as they did at the 2012 conference, the WRC voted to postpone the decision — not just until the next WRC in 2019, but until the one after, in 2023, while the International Telecommunication Union conducts further studies into the impact of tinkering with the definition of Coordinated Universal Time.

2 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. How is it a problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NTP handles leap seconds, where's the issue?

  2. This is stupid ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Leap seconds are an artifact of our timekeeping system, and actual physical properties of our orbit.

    For the ITU to be voting on if we keep leap seconds is kind of like politicians voting to determine that pi==3 ... it has nothing to do with reality.

    Like it or not, you have to solve the problem. You simply can't get a bunch of tech people on a damned committee getting together and saying "we're no longer having leap seconds". That's just stupid.

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