[LEAPSECS] New terminology will be needed.

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jan 5 12:28:25 EST 2012



On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Gerard Ashton wrote:

> If the proposed change goes through, we will need a new term, perhaps "proleptic UTC2017", for

> post-2017 UTC extended backwards by subtracting as many minutes of 60 SI seconds as desired.


The current proposal has no leap hours, so wouldn't the subtraction be unbounded?

Warner



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