In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Van Baak writes: >If one uses the rough but often-quoted figure of >"one leap second about every 500 days" then >a leap hour would be required on the order of >500 * 3600 / 365 = ~5000 years from now.
It's not a linear curve, it's quadratic. I found some slides from the torino meeting where this was laid out very well but I didn't save the URL, sorry. -- 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.
