[time-nuts] Global warming to shorten day by 0.12msec

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: [time-nuts] Global warming to shorten day by 0.12msec
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:04:22 +0000
Message-ID: <26754.1176991462 at critter.freebsd.dk>

> 
> According to the local engineering paper, Felix Landerer
> from Max Planck in Hamburg has run the IPCC numbers through
> the math and found that in 2200 Earth will rotate .12 msec
> faster due to mass redistributions.

That would amount to slightly more than 4 leap seconds each year. So much for
end of each half year preference.

Seems like a better thing to fix that broken Posix standard.

Cheers,
Magnus