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Most good ideas are obvious in hindsight. ;) But AFAIK, Google was the first to do this live and in production by hacking NTP, which is (apparently?) the same
by jpatokal 11y ago
Most good ideas are obvious in hindsight. ;) But AFAIK, Google was the first to do this live and in production by hacking NTP, which is (apparently?) the same as what Amazon is doing.
- chronial 11y agoSAP Systems have been doing this for many, many years live and in production for DST adjustments. Not sure about leap seconds.
- RedNifre 11y agoWhat? How does it make sense to spread DST adjustments over a long time?
- Namrog84 11y agoWhat if in a dst jump. It had. Pay namrog84 $100 at 1:30am. Then 2 rolls around and it's 1am again and now I get paid a second time. Win! But if dst was smeared over a day. This would be easily prevented.