Re: [LEAPSECS] ideas for new UTC rules

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_BSDIMP.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:02:03 -0600 (MDT)

In message: <0F4A5F0D-4B8B-49B1-870B-313C1C70FA18_at_noao.edu>
            Rob Seaman <seaman_at_noao.edu> writes:
: Simply allow the IERS to announce any number of leap seconds
: in advance extending over any time horizon - and yes - occurring
: at the end of any month. If predictability is the goal, relaxing
: unnecessary constraints is the solution.

There's a lot of timing gear that will fail if leap second is inserted
not at the end of June or December, not least ntp.

Warner
Received on Fri Apr 14 2006 - 10:04:54 PDT