[time-nuts] The future of UTC
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jul 15 14:51:32 UTC 2011
In message <CACTjVNyewpkSnJbt3DSf5KDvTq0JPwxM6X2RUXdXTcrp3jC7Hw at 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.
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