Security News > 2021 > January > Friday Squid Blogging: Squids Don’t Like Pile-Driving Noises
What about the autumn equinox when do I call you as the hour gets doubled up in wall clock time, is it in the first hour of elapsed time or the second hour of elapsed time?
Hidden in there is the actual answer usually used, that is never use wall/calendar time for actual work, always use elapsed time.
Then just use an agreed "Mapping function" to go from elapsed time to wall clock time if some idiot requires it.
Unless the "Time Lords" have made up their minds yet, you can not set a timer yet to fire your party poper for New Year.
The idea of "Time smearing" is just a way to get over the discontinuities of grannular time mapping and keeping your elapsed time timer in sync with others elapsed time timers and higher accuracy standards.
In effect you "Integrate a step function" then time shift it backwards so the mean time coincides with the step.