Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:12:40 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c Message-ID: <1558.1056661960@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:08:16 %2B0200." <xzpfzlw7dj3.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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In message <xzpfzlw7dj3.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >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. They've promised not to do that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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