8 hours and 45 minutes to go.
I love that the party listed for Vienna Austria has this note attached: "Free shot at time_t 1234567890 for everyone showing up with a device capable of displaying the current timestamp". Frackin' geeks.
what happens with those leap seconds?
Nothing happens. All that matters is that everyone is synchronized. It's not a cyclical counter that has to line up with astronomic events (like sunrise, or the seasons.) So there is no reason to insert leap seconds. This clock is just linear. Eventually it will become too big for 32bit computer registers and that will be a Y2K-ish problem for all UNIX computers.
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- jim 2-13-2009 2:45 pm
I love that the party listed for Vienna Austria has this note attached: "Free shot at time_t 1234567890 for everyone showing up with a device capable of displaying the current timestamp". Frackin' geeks.
- jim 2-13-2009 2:47 pm
what happens with those leap seconds?
- ken 2-13-2009 3:03 pm
Nothing happens. All that matters is that everyone is synchronized. It's not a cyclical counter that has to line up with astronomic events (like sunrise, or the seasons.) So there is no reason to insert leap seconds. This clock is just linear. Eventually it will become too big for 32bit computer registers and that will be a Y2K-ish problem for all UNIX computers.
- jim 2-13-2009 3:10 pm