[LEAPSECS] The relation between calendars and leap seconds.

Adi Stav adi at stav.org.il
Mon Nov 10 17:07:46 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:13:25PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:

>

> I agree with your requirements 2,3,4 and I note that UTC doesn't satisfy

> 3, which is another statement of this timeless predictability requirement.

> (Your requirement 4 is only relatively timeless, since it allows for

> changes in the definition of the second.)


Have there been suggestions, indeed, for such a predictable SI-second-based
calendar that synchronizes with the Earth's rotation?


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