[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

[Tony Finch]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>

> Perhaps, but leap seconds are a solution to the problem that must die in

> the fullness of time. With the quadratic acceleration there will come a

> time in a few thousand years when one leap second a month or day isn't

> enough and another solution will be necessary to keep things in sync. So

> in a way, leap seconds are putting a band-aide over the problem until

> everybody alive today is dead too...


Yes. And time zone adjustments will be able to keep civil time in sync
with earth rotation for a much longer time than leap seconds :-)

Tony.
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