Re: [tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

On 10/4/22 19:51, Steve Summit via tz wrote:

if you wait long enough, the multi-minute jump that you then need isn't a "leap" anything, it's a political change to the definition of a time zone, readily handled by the well-tried mechanism that we on this list all know and love.

This should be fun once we start changing time zones to to be more than 24 hours away from where they are now. Espenak & Meeus 2006[1] predict that this will be around the year 7000. It will be like "Around the World in Eighty Days", but in slow motion and involving the whole planet rather than just Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. [1] according to RH van Gent's ΔT Calculator <https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/deltat/deltat_main.htm>.