In message <19B87E06-1B02-49BD-92FF-0DF53109CC0E_at_noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>> 3) maximize scheduling horizon.
>
>That's one of the issues with leap hours - it's easy to maximize a
>schedule, simply never do something. I believe this is really a
>question of imposing a fixed schedule that happens to be of long
>duration. Perhaps I misunderstood your point.
This is the main objection to leapseconds as they are now: we get
too short notice.
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Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 13:48:21 PDT