[time-nuts] The future of UTC

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4E2046DB.3040206 at 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.

>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.

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