**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

phooky @phooky@octodon.social

Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

HEIST MOVIE PLOT ALERT: "There will exist a 200-picosecond interval, henceforth ignored, every 136 years when the 64-bit field will be zero, which by convention is interpreted as an invalid timestamp."
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1361.html

**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

Jan 20, 2023, 17:15

phooky @phooky@octodon.social

you have one century to assemble your team

**Trammell Hudson** @th@v.st · 2023-01-20T17:28:37Z

Trammell Hudson @th@v.st

@phooky the major cloud providers used to use different Leap Second algorithms that lead to discrepancies in their timestamps during the period around the leap, which could also be the part of a very specialized, very high frequency heist.

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Jan 20, 2023, 17:28 · · · ·

**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 18:13

**phooky** @phooky@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 18:13

Jan 20, 2023, 18:13

phooky @phooky@octodon.social

@th multi-century cosine smear

**Christopher Wood** @cwood@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 21:18

**Christopher Wood** @cwood@octodon.social · Jan 20, 2023, 21:18

Jan 20, 2023, 21:18

Christopher Wood @cwood@octodon.social

@th @phooky This could have already happened given how there have been a bunch of leap seconds High Frequency Trading really got going with modern computers and internet communications.

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