Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Add note on leap seconds #600

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Feb 11, 2019
Merged

Add note on leap seconds #600

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Code snippets appearing in `this style` are to be interpreted as Python code. Be
* **Shard chain** - one of the chains on which user transactions take place and account data is stored.
* **Block root** - a 32-byte Merkle root of a beacon chain block or shard chain block. Previously called "block hash".
* **Crosslink** - a set of signatures from a committee attesting to a block in a shard chain, which can be included into the beacon chain. Crosslinks are the main means by which the beacon chain "learns about" the updated state of shard chains.
* **Slot** - a period of `SLOT_DURATION` seconds, during which one proposer has the ability to create a beacon chain block and some attesters have the ability to make attestations
* **Slot** - a period during which one proposer has the ability to create a beacon chain block and some attesters have the ability to make attestations
* **Epoch** - an aligned span of slots during which all [validators](#dfn-validator) get exactly one chance to make an attestation
* **Finalized**, **justified** - see Casper FFG finalization [[casper-ffg]](#ref-casper-ffg)
* **Withdrawal period** - the number of slots between a [validator](#dfn-validator) exit and the [validator](#dfn-validator) balance being withdrawable
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@ For a beacon chain block, `block`, to be processed by a node, the following cond

* The parent block with root `block.parent_root` has been processed and accepted.
* An Ethereum 1.0 block pointed to by the `state.latest_eth1_data.block_hash` has been processed and accepted.
* The node's local clock time is greater than or equal to `state.genesis_time + block.slot * SLOT_DURATION`.
* The node's Unix time is greater than or equal to `state.genesis_time + block.slot * SLOT_DURATION`. (Note that leap seconds mean that slots will occasionally last `SLOT_DURATION + 1` or `SLOT_DURATION - 1` seconds, possibly several times a year.)

If these conditions are not met, the client should delay processing the beacon block until the conditions are all satisfied.

Expand Down