May 10, 2017
11:29 p.m.
On 05/10/2017 09:35 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
It is very hard to say what the ITU-R might or might not do.
Yes, and in the long run the current tz master is untenable, as it follows the current ITU rules of at most one leap second per month (it actually enforces 28 days minus 1 second). If I've calculated things correctly, in ~1400 years tidal friction will mean the average day will be about 33 ms longer than it is now, and if we continued to follow the current rules we'd need to insert a leap second roughly every 1/0.033 days, or about once every 30 days. There wouldn't be enough months in the year to insert all the leap seconds that we'd need. Something will have to give.