In message <cactjvnyewpksnjbt3dsf5kdvtq0jpwxm6x2ruxdxtcrp3jc...@mail.gmail.com> , Steve Rooke writes:
>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. No. "schedule them 20 years in advance" is not the same as "schedule once every 20 seconds". If the time-lords want a leap second 2031-12-31, the have to say so before before 2011-12-31, if they want one 2032-06-30, they have to say so before 2012-06-30, etc. -- 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.
