On 2011-11-15 16:44, Warner Losh wrote:
It is disheartening that the middle ground remains unexplored. Most of the difficulty of the current system could be solved by allowing DUT1 to grow as large as 10s, but still keep it bounded.
But this "difficulty" never has been the concern of ITU-R! Their concern very clearly is the non-monotonicity of UTC and the proliferation of different ad hoc time scales invented to overcome the discontinuity of UTC at leap seconds. Changing the schedule of leap seconds would not reduce the need for UTC-SLS, Google time, UTC[SOFA],..., nor the number of schemes for mapping UTC values around leap seconds to time_t values in the various UNIX flavors. Michael Deckers. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
