[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Tony Finch]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

>

> Do people have a notion how we'll recon time when the accumulated delta

> becomes large (like on the order of 100k seconds)?  UTC+27?


I reckon the timezone fudge is workable for rate errors as large as 1e-5,
which would imply a timezone change every 11 years.

More speculation along these lines: http://fanf.livejournal.com/116480.html

Tony.
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