In message <1123846049.12075.10.camel_at_tantalus.no-ip.org>, Greg Hennessy writes:
>On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 08:44 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20050811191032.GA24024_at_cox.net>, Greg Hennessy writes:
>> >> Will you support a proposal that keeps leap-second (or -minutes),
>> >> but mandates that they be determined 40 or 50 years in advance ?
>> >
>> >Determined to what accuracy?
>>
>> Whatever the prediction is able to nail it to.
>>
>> I realize that this means that the bounds on |UT1-UTC| increases
>> to about a minute, worst case, but already given todays predictive
>> capabilities, I think it will be possible to keep the difference
>> within a handful of seconds.
>
>I personally would NOT support such a proposal then.
>
>I might be willing to support a proposal that calls for broadcast of the
>difference of UT1-UTC as well of a long term determination of leap
>seconds.
I took for granted that the UT1-UTC difference needs to be made
electronically available.
Getting it into GPS almanac would probably be a good idea.
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Received on Fri Aug 12 2005 - 05:03:31 PDT