The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?)
7th April 2011
As more and more systems care about time at the second and sub-second level, finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem is becoming increasingly urgent.
We’re talking about the abolishment of leap seconds, a crude hack added 40 years ago, to paper over the fact that planets make lousy clocks compared with quantum mechanical phenomena.
April 7th, 2011 at 11:11
Anyone who is trying to use a machine to count how many seconds someone has lived must already deal with varying legal interpretations.