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Date:      Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:08:16 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c
Message-ID:  <xzpfzlw7dj3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200306252123.h5PLNpgC044447@repoman.freebsd.org> (Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:23:51 -0700 (PDT)")
References:  <200306252123.h5PLNpgC044447@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   There will very likely be no leap seconds for a while, given how the
>   earth is speeding up and slowing down, so there will be plenty of time
>   for this fix to propigate.  UT1-UTC is currently at "about -0.4s" and
>   decrementing by .1s every 8 months or so.  6 * 8 is 48 months, or 4
>   years.

Not necessarily; UT1-UTC is required to be within +/- 0.9s, so a leap
second might be introduced early to avoid crossing the -0.9s barrier.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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