Re: tlug: 12 seconds?!!

[Sean Bennett <sean@example.com>]

... is this going to make older or  younger??  (hopefully atleast wiser :-)

Rex Walters wrote:

> As I was leaving home this morning I think I heard somebody on the
> television blathering something to the effect of:
>
>     "There will be a 12 second adjustment to Japanese time (mumbledy
>     soon?).  Official maps will also be corrected to move Japan (500m to
>     the right or somesuch)."
>
> Okay, my Japanese is pretty poor, but I'm pretty sure I got at least the
> gist of it right.  Anybody hear anything about this?  Sounds like a
> Fawlty Towers episode ("Anything else, Sybil?  Shall I move the entire
> country 500m to the right?") ....
>
> It caught my attention because I had synced up one of our servers
> here to NTP (using Dan Bernstein's clockspeed) a while back, but just
> recently noticed that the Japan time signal (117 on the telephone) was
> off by 10 or twelve seconds.  I just shrugged it off as something wrong
> with the phone company equipment most likely, but apparently the entire
> Japan time standard is out of sync with TAI and the rest of the world!
>
> Dunno what this has to do with Linux (except that my time server's
> running it -- of course!), but I thought folks on this list might know
> something about it.  Anyone?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Rex
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