[LEAPSECS] LOD reaches 0 s/d

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Nov 12 19:04:20 EST 2020


On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 4:46 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
>
> >     predicts that d(UT2)/d(TAI) = 1 after 2021-11-13, ie
> >     the rates of UTT2 and TAI are expected to agree for the
> >     next year. This has never happened since 1961. We may
> >     not need to abolish leap seconds for quite a while.
>
> Unless of course we get close enough to a negative one, that people
> are *really* going to freak out.
>
> Hands in the air:  Who here besides Warner and me has ever tried to
> test handling of negative leap-seconds ?
>

I'd poke my hand up, but when I tested it, it severed my arm...

Warner
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