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Poul-Henning Kamp's article "The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)" [0] is a great read. I certainly was unaware of the background, and how it can affect
by srean 12y ago
Poul-Henning Kamp's article "The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)" [0] is a great read. I certainly was unaware of the background, and how it can affect actual systems.
[0] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009
- deisner 12y agoAnother great article on the topic, from American Scientist: "The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second", available either from the magazine (behind paywall): http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2011/4/the-future-of-time-utc-and-the-leap-second/1 http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2011/4/the-f... or on arXiv.org: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.3141.pdf http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.3141.pdf .
- JadeNB 12y agoI'm not sure about the etiquette of arXiv links, but I have always preferred being taken to the abstract, so that I can decide whether I want the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3141 http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3141. It's just a click from there to the PDF (or other formats, if there are any).
- vxNsr 12y agoI'm getting a 500-server error
- markbnj 12y agoThat's a great article. Thanks for linking it.