samhexum Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Time Is Running Out for the Leap Second To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re proposing to ditch it. Will our days ever be the same? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/science/time-leap-second.html How are we all supposed to sleep tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ purplekow Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 One second later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 A serious problem for the experts to resolve, but not one for the rest of us to worry about. It affects arcane technology but not our quotidian existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted November 18, 2022 Author Share Posted November 18, 2022 3 hours ago, mike carey said: It affects arcane technology but not our quotidian existence. And how am I supposed to sleep pondering THAT? quo·tid·i·an adjective of or occurring every day; daily. "the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic" ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane. "his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details" MEDICINE denoting the malignant form of malaria. 🤢🤯🤒 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefer Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 4 hours ago, mike carey said: It affects arcane technology <smile> probably already solved, speaking only about the n-thousand servers at work which are the bane to my existence; our windows farms run domain time client which slew away any discrepancies... so missing a leap second will only effect geeks that follow us in a thousand years, who will likely stand by and wonder how their ancestors could have been so dumb.... that and possibly Kerberos authentication might get a bit twitchy if it pushes a server over its limit. + Charlie, mike carey and samhexum 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeezifonly Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 So long as I can keep watching my true murder shows, taint none of my business. 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 23 hours ago, samhexum said: And how am I supposed to sleep pondering THAT? quo·tid·i·an adjective of or occurring every day; daily. "the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic" ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane. "his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details" MEDICINE denoting the malignant form of malaria. 🤢🤯🤒 Where did you get the big emojis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted November 19, 2022 Author Share Posted November 19, 2022 (edited) 24 minutes ago, FreshFluff said: Where did you get the big emojis? It's just the regular emojis offered here, enlarged. I do period/space/emojis/space/period, then highlight the emojis & click 'size' above, then make them 72. Then I erase the periods. It's easier to highlight & enlarge the emojis if there is something before & after them. . 😇😁😜 . becomes . 😇😁😜 . then erase the periods. Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Edited November 19, 2022 by samhexum for shits and giggles pubic_assistance and + FreshFluff 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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