Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
by vbezhenar on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:34PM
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So another option is to adjust to 1/100 second every few months, so good processes will have to appear, one way or another.
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
by nullc on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:40AM
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> So another option is to adjust to 1/100 second every few months
That's pretty awful. We have a lot of systems now which care about duration. Any scheme that makes a time span unpredictable will cause problems. Doing it more often means more problems.
The only improvement is that you hope that the things that care about 1/100th of a second differences are rare enough that disturbing thing many times more often is a good tradeoff. This isn't a good bet especially because at time goes on we build faster and more stable systems that care about tighter and tighter synchronization.