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Leaping seconds and looping servers

Leaping seconds and looping servers

Posted Jul 4, 2012 10:37 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by corbet
Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers

But, dammit, that sort of thing is just what a body with a name like the International Earth Rotation Service should do! Should the Earth spin on unregulated?

(I note that they've been renamed to the 'International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service', which is a very much less nifty name somehow.)


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