In message <28f22009-2391-426c-8dc8-8de953708...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> "UTC is unpredictable" is the core of the problem, and a problem >> that must be solved, either by extending the predictability horizon >> from six months to at least 10 years, or by making UTC predictable. > >But Universal Time is *inherently* unpredictable. (That's its charm :-)
No, that's merely an artifact of how it is defined. > - Nobody at the ITU appears to have considered such an option. ... And nobody who cared for that option, seems to have bothered doing the ground work either. Too bad... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
