Re: [LEAPSECS] Delta T to 2 seconds over 50 years?

2008-04-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes:

Online rumor that ObsPM may be prepared to assert predictions of Delta
T, and thus leap seconds, to two seconds over an interval of 50 years.

That would certainly remove my primary objection to leap-seconds.

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[LEAPSECS] Delta T to 2 seconds over 50 years?

2008-04-21 Thread Steve Allen
Online rumor that ObsPM may be prepared to assert predictions of Delta
T, and thus leap seconds, to two seconds over an interval of 50 years.

http://groups.google.com/group/NavList/browse_thread/thread/6b49f72f72fe84e3/21930961759798a2?hl=en#21930961759798a2

That might just alleviate the objections to putting the leap seconds
into the zoneinfo database.

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