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Are we doomed?
1 posted on 01/12/2015 7:45:50 AM PST by BenLurkin
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I agree. All 257 of my LinkedIn spam emails were 26 seconds late today!

28 posted on 01/12/2015 8:24:11 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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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.


37 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.)
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A government task force with massive powers is the only thing that can save us.

Women and minorities hardest hit.

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38 posted on 01/12/2015 12:30:49 PM PST by Organic Panic
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