In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Davies writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> If we can increase the tolerance to 10sec, IERS can give us the >>> leapseconds with 20 years notice and only the minority of computers >>> that survive longer than that would need to update the factory >>> installed table of leapseconds. > >PHK can reply for himself here but, for the record, I think RS's >reading of what he said is different from mine. My assumption is >that PHK is discussing the idea that leaps should be scheduled many >years in advance. They should continue to be single second leaps - >just many more would be in the schedule pipeline at any given >point. > >Obviously, the leap seconds would be scheduled on the best available >estimates but as we don't know the future rotation of the Earth this >would necessarily increase the tolerance. In theory DUT1 would be >unbounded (as it sort of is already) but PHK is assuming that there'd >be some practical likely upper bound such as 10 seconds. > >Am I right in this reading?
yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
