2012-06-30 Leap Second¶
Quote of the day:
“There should be no noticeable affect or inconvenience on computers or any other technology that requires precise timekeeping because they adjust for these leap seconds”
AP Quoting [Daniel] Gambis [Director of the IERS].
(See for instance: The Inquirer)
NTP lossage¶
This is a plot of the status of the NTP partners of gps.dix.dk.
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The X-axis is in arbitrary units of approx 5 seconds.
In total 10% of the clients started sending timestamps which indicated that they were not inside the +/- 128msec NTP spec.
Notable Twitter messages¶
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The first hour on Twitter:¶
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