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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by XorNot on Sunday January 01, 2017 @01:45AM (#13294934)
But they do care what GPS reference time is. Which are satellites very much dependent on holding an accurate position in the sky (which is dependent on the Earth's rotational speed, which changes, which is why we have leap seconds).

So go figure: which part of this system should be broken because people keep ignoring that leap seconds happen?

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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by userbinator on Sunday January 01, 2017 @02:39AM (#13295011)
Actually, GPS time is not adjusted for leap seconds:

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html

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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by XorNot on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:50AM (#13296086)
That's neither here nor there: GPS receivers, and the GPS satellites, do broadcast the leap-second insertions (though they don't reset their own clocks, they simply maintain the differential as additional information).
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