[LEAPSECS] Crunching Bulletin B numbers

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>

> That said, if leap second insertions were simply deferred for 10

> years, DUT1 would probably grow to no more than about 6s (even

> including deceleration), which seems much preferable to letting it

> grow without limit.


If you do that then DUT1 will be large enough to cause problems for all
the people that assume UTC ~= UT1, and if they can deal with those
problems they can deal just as well with unbounded DUT1.

Tony.
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