[ale] OT ntp - leap second - how many knew what this was 3 weeks ago

[mike at trausch.us]

On 07/05/2012 08:35 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> I remember shaking my head and thinking that smearing the leap second
> seemed fairly obvious but that there are surely several patents held
> already and more applications in the pipe.

Slewing time in OS kernels is something that's been done for years and
years.  It is obvious in this field.  If anyone successfully patents it,
I'd be surprised, even for this country.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”



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