In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Hennessy writes: >> Will you support a proposal that keeps leap-second (or -minutes), >> but mandates that they be determined 40 or 50 years in advance ? > >Determined to what accuracy?
Whatever the prediction is able to nail it to. I realize that this means that the bounds on |UT1-UTC| increases to about a minute, worst case, but already given todays predictive capabilities, I think it will be possible to keep the difference within a handful of seconds. -- 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.
