Tony Finch&#39;s blog

fanf
13 Jun 2020, 21:58
Obscure problem caused by bad DNS load balancer
Not as far as I know.
(Anonymous)
12 Jun 2020, 00:28
Obscure problem caused by bad DNS load balancer
8 years later and bind9 still reporting this as an error... any way for an end-user to have bind9 ignore this specific error?
Greg A. Woods
13 Apr 2017, 01:25
Named and optional function arguments in C99
I've been thinking of ways to add named parameters to C for some time. This is a nice solution for existing compilers.

It's too bad about the use of CPP though.
(Anonymous)
7 Apr 2017, 13:40
Proleptic UTC
So of course I copied one of the dates wrong. The first leap second I have is actually 1958-12-31 (not 1959) where the TAI-UTC difference is 0.472s, close to the ideal insertion point of 0.5s.
(Anonymous)
6 Apr 2017, 19:39
Proleptic UTC
Fascinating. I attempted to do exactly this (proleptic leap seconds for an epoch starting 1958-01-01 to coincide with the start of the TAI epoch). I only found this page afterward. Like you, I found…