On 16 July 2011 02:51, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > 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".
Ah! I get you. Not 10 leap seconds at 20 year intervals, just an almanac to indicate when they will be for up to 20 years in advance. I guess that means they could take a bye for any scheduled event that is not required, as in the 7 year period without one. Steve > 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. > -- 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.