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Re: [AVTCORE] Leap seconds

Kevin Gross <kevin.gross@avanw.com> Mon, 19 September 2011 20:07 UTC

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From: Kevin Gross <kevin.gross@avanw.com>
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Subject: Re: [AVTCORE] Leap seconds
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If the experts here are unable to dispel the unclarity I would propose the
next step is to contact David Mills and see if he is able to to comment.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

> I guess there is some ... unclarity.  On the one hand we read that the
> tickers that count seconds do just that, tick every second, and that
> leap-second correction is only required if you want to convert these to
> civil time.  On the other hand we read of this 'stalling' behavior.
>
> If we stall periodically, then the counters always have {365 or 366 days} *
> 24 * 60 * 60 seconds per year.  If we don't, some years are +/-1 second if a
> second was inserted or deleted, and you need to know which years since your
> zero-point had leap seconds.
>
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