schily(a)schily.net (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
|Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
|> sds <stephen.strowes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|>> Important question: did anybody have an "exciting" new year because
\
|>> of a leap
|>> second bug?
|>
|> I've been collecting failure reports on the LEAPSECS list
|
|https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare\
|-dns/
|
|"go" seems to have a related bug.
|
|BTW: The POSIX standard intentionally does not include leap seconds \
|in the UNIX
|time interface as it seems that this would cause more problems than \
|it claims
|to fix.
I think it is a problem, or better a gap, a void, with the current
standard that software has no option to become informed of the
event of a leap second for one, but further more that CLOCK_TAI is
not available. I think it would make things easier if software
which wants just that can get it, e.g., for periodic timer events
etc. This is surely not a healing given that most timestamps etc.
are based on UTC, but i think the severity of the problems could
possibly be lowered. Especially now that multi-hour smears seem
to become used by big companies it seems to be important to have
a correct clock available. This is in fact something i don't
really understand, at _that_ level that is to say. If, e.g.,
Google and Bloomberg both would have stated instead that they
slew the leap second, then only a single second would have been
affected, instead of multiple hours.
--steffen