On Wed 2021-04-28T23:38:59-0600 Brian Inglis via tz hath writ:
It also appears that UT1 can be "accurately" and "reliably" determined only to orders of milliseconds at any time, presumably why the DUT1 change announcements are made in 100ms increments, based on the likely trend.
Note that 1 ms = 0.5 m A 1 m accuracy for GPS requires less than 2 ms error in UT1. Reductions of data from the day of a VLBI campaign give UT1 accuracy around 1 microsecond. That is only available after correlation and degrades rapidly, but it is essential for the Event Horizon Telescope. The 100 ms steps in DUT1 were deemed adequate for celestial navigation and feasible to provide in 1971-02 as detailed in CCIR Report 517. That report was produced by folks unfamiliar with the magnitude of the stochastic processes and the limits of the sampling theorem so they supposed the maximum |UT1-UTC| could be maintained within 0.7 s, and they wrote that impossible-to-achieve limit into an international regulatory document as well as the design of radio time signal broadcasts.
An alternative would be to use the future predicted values of UT1 to predict leap seconds.
That's what IERS do: see comment about Silmarillion! ;^>
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