Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

[Steve Allen <sla () ucolick org>]

On Sun 2016-07-10T11:27:33 +0300, Saku Ytti hath writ:
> So how can we solve the problem? Immediately and long term?

The ITU-R had the question of leap seconds on their agenda for 14
years and did not come up with an answer.  Their 2015 decision was to
drop the question and ask an alphabet soup of international acronym
agencies to come up with something better by 2023.

The problem remains that simply abandoning leap seconds has the effect
of redefining the calendar, and Pope Gregory's last attempt to do that
took 300 years to consolidate.  For time scales there are three
desirable goals, but it is only possible to pick two

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/picktwo.html

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