[time-nuts] The future of UTC
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jul 15 15:34:11 UTC 2011
In message <CAHZk5WcrvnY8Jv2xsWYCnBvQ3wXmRA_YezoFcJpufz9NFdKJ2A at mail.gmail.com>
, Sanjeev Gupta writes:
>PHK, in your proposal, the long term stability of "low, bounded DUT" would
>be guaranteed?
Only guaranteed in the sense that I tacitly presume the geophysicisists
will schedule leap seconds with care, there is no numerical guarantees
involved, other than we will know leap seconds 20 years in advance.
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