We need to test leap smearing :)

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Fri Dec 23 01:00:37 UTC 2022


On Wed, 21 Dec 2022, Hal Murray via devel wrote:

> Google says:
>  https://developers.google.com/time/smear
>  We encourage anyone smearing leap seconds to use a 24-hour linear smear from
> noon to noon UTC.
>
> There were earlier versions which did sine rather than linear.

Hmm.  I don't recall any nonlinear version (and I presume you meant raised 
cosine rather than sine), but I do recall that Google's smear interval was 
originally 20 hours, not 24.  If you make it 24 hours, there's the 
question of whether that means 86400 seconds or 86401. :-)

Fred Wright


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