[LEAPSECS] Alanna Mitchell in NYT

Michael Deckers Michael.Deckers at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 14 18:44:54 EST 2022


    On 2022-11-14 19:48, Steve Allen wrote:
> The NYT article ends with Arias ruminating about how someday
> there will have to be a leap minute or leap hour.



     Of course, nobody will propose leap minutes or leap hours in UTC
     after 2135 just to decrease the difference UTC - UT1.

     The reason why the CIPM (for now) sticks to the requirement that
     |UTC - UT1| be bounded is most probably the argument brought forward
     by some people from ISO who say that, without explicit bound on
     |UTC - UT1|, UTC had to change its name so that "polysemy" is avoided.

     Michael Deckers.



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