[ntp:questions] NTP Pool Server Costs me $40/mo in Bandwidth--is

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Tue Jun 24 23:13:17 UTC 2014


On 6/24/2014 5:59 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> To me, it seems the reasonable thing to do would be to decouple UTC and
> UT1 completely and make the adjustment at a higher level like
> timezones if necessary.

You're doing it wrong. If you don't want leap seconds, use a timescale 
which doesn't have them (e.g. TAI, GPS). UTC was created to closely 
track Sol. Decoupling that breaks its purpose, and the promise made when 
it took over from GMT.


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