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Supposedly leap seconds are going to be formally abandoned in a
little more than a decade; but that conveniently ignores the
vagaries of the earth's wobbling, which are not deterministic, so
it's just a different kind of folly by our fellow meat puppets.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/22/2022 23:13 PM, James Browning
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 12/22/2022 7:49 PM PST Hal Murray via devel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org"><devel@ntpsec.org></a> wrote:
Fred Wright said:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">If you make it 24 hours, there's the question of whether that means 86400
seconds or 86401. :-)
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That ones easy. It's 86400 smeared seconds and 86401 real seconds.
That's the whole point of smearing. :)
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Stretching 86399 seconds need not apply.
Also, planning for no leap seconds is probably premature.
Could you check back when the race of mortal men is no
more or the sun has burned out? Maybe not even then.
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