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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND


From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists () lists zabbadoz net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:38:28 +0000


On 22 Jun 2015, at 12:27 , Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:15:41PM +0100,
Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote 
a message of 15 lines which said:

The problems are that UTC is unpredictable,

That's because the earth rotation is unpredictable. Any time based on
this buggy planet's movements will be unpredictable. Let's patch it
now!

So we need a new center of the universe and switch to stardate and thus solve the 32bit UNIX time problem for real this 
time?



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