Eric Scace wrote in <210d4e22-f86b-4ebe-b6ea-fe6b4fbff...@scace.org>: | If a leap minute were to be added/removed at some future date when \ | UTC became significantly more that 30 seconds different from mean \ | solar time, many years could be made available (e.g., 20 years!) \ | to retire/replace/rewrite software for such an unusual event whose \ | occurrence is on a KNOWN date/time in the future. | | This is much easier to deal with than writing code for future leap \ | second changes on dates yet to be established/promulgated. | | As an example, if the delta was wandering around 40 seconds, BIPM \ | could announce a leap minute to occur twenty years from the date \ | of the announcement… and, if a sense of humor existed, put it on \ | Feb 29th of a leap year.
On the road of changing civil human time for the benefit of machines lies madness. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
