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2015's 'Leap Second' Could Scramble Computers
livescience.com ^
| | January 09, 2015 07:38am ET
| Kelly Dickerson, Staff Writer
Posted on 01/12/2015 7:45:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
I used to lift the heavy PA speakers onto the stands myself too.
I still do it for Church, but now i am a bass player and i have a REAL drummer! LOL!
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:06:15 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: BenLurkin
Y2K was a real problem, but hyped up to the stratosphere.
A lot of people worked to make sure that nothing would happen and lo and behold, nothing did.
The Y2K work was not a failure, it was a success.
The failure was in the hype and the bogus letdown.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:14:36 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:15:50 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: BenLurkin
GPS and TAI time do not correct for leap seconds, so you have to factor in the accumulated number of leap seconds since their respective epochs, (35 seconds for TAI, 16 seconds for GPS) to derive UTC.
Not an issue for most computers to comprehend if the programmer had any brains.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:20:25 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:21:22 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: BenLurkin
At least we get a warning this time. The last time this was done in 2012, many people were caught offguard. It raised hell where I work as customer systems were going down left and right for a couple of days at the beginning of July.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:23:09 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
To: rarestia
This is only a problem for hyper-accurate time keeping requirements for technologies such as GPS. But GPS time doesn't adjust for leap seconds. There is a different line in the transmitted GPS time word that describes the accumulated leap seconds since GPS epoch in 1980.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:23:45 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: BenLurkin
LinkedIn I agree. All 257 of my LinkedIn spam emails were 26 seconds late today!
To: HereInTheHeartland
That is why I didnt worry about it; I didn't "worry" about it. I worked on it, starting in about 1997.
I had confidence that Americans were smart enough to fix it;
Thank you.
and we had a lot of time to prepare.
We did indeed. By the time the brainless idiots in Big Media found out about it, it was largely a solved problem.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:26:33 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
To: Yo-Yo
The receivers on the ground wouldn’t necessarily account for that, would they?
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:27:26 AM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rarestia
The receivers on the ground wouldnt necessarily account for that, would they? The receivers use GPS time at all times. Time displays that reference GPS time do have to take it into account.
Here's a web page that the major time types: http://leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:33:27 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: left that other site
...and it was all a hoax. It wasn't a hoax. The IT industry spent several years fixing it.
People think it was a hox because we were actually successful.
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:38:10 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: BitWielder1
Y2K was a real problem, but hyped up to the stratosphere. A lot of people worked to make sure that nothing would happen and lo and behold, nothing did. The Y2K work was not a failure, it was a success. The failure was in the hype and the bogus letdown.
That, and most companies finished months ahead of schedule with their preparations, and then figured out they could attach "Y2K" to just about any project and get management funding.
So many projects got done under the Y2K flag that the entire consulting industry had crashed by the end of Feb 2000 - most busineses either had no money left, had no projects pending, or both.
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posted on
01/12/2015 9:26:29 AM PST
by
chrisser
(Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids. And Cheetos are for Rinos.)
To: ShadowAce
Please read #20.
I didn’t express myself correctly, and apologized.
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posted on
01/12/2015 9:39:54 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Yo-Yo
That's
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posted on
01/12/2015 9:55:37 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: grania
I remember doom. Didn't it happen at the beginning of the year 2000? Oh I remember that very well...
I was walking along the beach around midnight, on the east coast of Costa Rica, Jaco Beach, and I did notice that there was a serious disturbance of the force, just about the time there was a serious deluge of rain.
It was awful!
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:35:22 AM PST
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius6961)
To: BenLurkin
Uh, no.
That’s not the way computers “tell time”. Computers count the number of seconds elapsed from some pre-defined “epoch” date, and then use software functions to represent that elapsed time as a a date, hours, minutes, and seconds using the defined locale (e.g., US Eastern vs. UTC). The computer’s internal “wall clock” is typically synchronized with a network time service which in turn is synchronized to an atomic clock.
A computer that is not patched to deal with the upcoming “leap second” will simply show time to be one second ahead of what the reference time actually is.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:40:14 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: BenLurkin
A government task force with massive powers is the only thing that can save us.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
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