Re: Seeking clarifaction of tai64nlocal and leap seconds

"Andy Bradford" <[email protected]> 20 Sep 2012 18:51:16 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
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Thus said Russ Allbery on Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:24:28 PDT:

> 0.21 seconds off is enough  to occasionally cause weird build problems
> if you're  running make on separate  hosts with a shared  network file
> system that has sub-second timestamp precision. Many people don't have
> this problem, of course. :)

This precision  was obtained with  only two  measurements and a  3 month
hiatus of no adjustments whatsoever. As I mentioned earlier, it might be
possible  to  achieve  an  even  higher  precision  with  more  frequent
measurements---I don't know, however, I'm about to find out. :-)

Andy