[LEAPSECS] Implementation for |UTC-UT1| > 1 s

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Mar 20 15:07:00 EDT 2018


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:59 AM, GERRY ASHTON <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:

> Perhaps this is too obvious to mention, but if there is a desire to allow
> |UTC-UT1| somewhat greater than 1 s, but much less than 1 minute, in order
> to schedule leap seconds further in advance, it will still be necessary to
> limit each correction to 1 s. This is because a vast number of standards do
> not allow the number of the second to reach 61.
>

I don't see how that follows. The number of seconds in a minute is an
orthogonal problem ti DUT1, unless you are proposing multiple leap seconds
at once...

Warner
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