cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c
Dag-ErlingSmørgrav
des at des.no
Thu Jun 26 14:08:20 PDT 2003
Warner Losh <imp at 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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