[time-nuts] The future of UTC

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CACTjVNynr5Vhrj=E+gFUnGeBPa_u8__26BhjaMK2NV6UXGi2Sg at mail.gmail.com>
, Steve Rooke writes:

>> Nope, once they have scheduled a leap-second, it happens.
>
>And if it's not needed?

It is needed, otherwise they would not have scheduled it.

If they predict wrong all that happens is that DUT1 wanders a bit
more around and they will have to catch up with it over the next
couple of decades.

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