[LEAPSECS] Alanna Mitchell in NYT

[Joseph Gwinn]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:48:12 -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Mon 2022-11-14T18:27:25+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> And with a 2035 deadline we might just get to see if our implementations
>> of negative leap-seconds work before it is too late.
>> 
>> Yes, it should have happened 20 years ago.
> 
> I believe I recently saw PHK ruminating that forward compatibility in
> computing is at least as important as backward compatibility because
> the next 30 years of software need to know where they are going.
> The NYT article ends with Arias ruminating about how someday
> there will have to be a leap minute or leap hour.
> To have systems which will handle that eventuality we need to be
> openly considering the goals and implementation for that already.

The problem is as always that we cannot know the future, and so we 
will always guess wrong.

That which is predicted never happens and that which happens is never 
predicted.

Joe Gwinn