On 16 July 2011 02:20, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message <4e2046db.3040...@erols.com>, 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.
Sorry to barge in here but I thought the leap second need was about a two year thing so wouldn't that mean a ten second jump at the twenty year mark. Steve >>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 > p...@freebsd.org | 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.