[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Mon Oct 3 19:58:27 UTC 2022
On Mon 2022-10-03T15:45:59-0400 Garrett Wollman via tz hath writ:
> And of course both communities end up having to paper over the mistake
> that the POSIX committee made with regard to leap seconds, but do it
> in different, not entirely compatible ways.
The POSIX committee did not make a mistake about leap seconds.
They had no choice.
Doing anything else would have required the existence of an authority
who had already created a robust scheme for communicating the list of
past and future leap seconds. No such authority was ever funded, and
that was because the leap second itself resulted from earlier
instances of failure to communicate.
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