In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>>           3) maximize scheduling horizon.
>
>That's one of the issues with leap hours - it's easy to maximize a
>schedule, simply never do something.  I believe this is really a
>question of imposing a fixed schedule that happens to be of long
>duration.  Perhaps I misunderstood your point.

This is the main objection to leapseconds as they are now: we get
too short notice.

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