On Tue 2022-10-04T09:27:32+0000 John Haxby hath writ:
Back in the early 70s there were 86400 seconds in a day, every day. It was only with the advent of leap seconds that some days has 86401 or 86499 seconds.
A clock that is never reset does not correspond to anything that humans can observe. At no point in history has there been a source of official time that does not experience resets of its clock. When the clock on the wall in my house is wrong and I reset it the foundation does not crack and rain does not pour through the roof. The implementation of time in computing systems is fragile because it is based on an unrealistic notion that clocks are always right and never need to be reset. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m