In message <[email protected]>, Chuck Harris writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>I can see a 20 year prediction being seriously fraught with error. Not really, starting out with just one leap second every 18 months gets you pretty good first approximation. DUT1 would probably still be less than 3 seconds. >I am not at all happy with the idea of >having it magically stall, or stutter. That's something for some >library function to keep track of after the fact. That is exactly my point: With 6 months notice, getting the libraries updated using regular software update channels is not feasible. -- 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. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
