4 ms·
Perhaps we could adjust leap seconds once every 10 or 15 years. A 5 second change is unlikely to be disruptive if there is a common, semirare schedule.
by HappyTypist 11y ago
Perhaps we could adjust leap seconds once every 10 or 15 years. A 5 second change is unlikely to be disruptive if there is a common, semirare schedule.
- ars 11y agoThat would be worse since most likely every single machine will fail - if it's not common no one will think to test or implement it. And a many-second jump is harder for the computer to handle smoothly, especially if it's a backward jump.
- kqr 11y agoIt's not a backward jump – you just let the clock run a bit slower for a minute, or an hour, or whatever. Smearing the second out works for 99% of people/computers, and when it doesn't you probably have much bigger problems keeping your clocks in sync anyway, so you should be able to handle a few leap seconds too.