cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Thu Jun 26 14:08:20 PDT 2003


Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   There will very likely be no leap seconds for a while, given how the
>   earth is speeding up and slowing down, so there will be plenty of time
>   for this fix to propigate.  UT1-UTC is currently at "about -0.4s" and
>   decrementing by .1s every 8 months or so.  6 * 8 is 48 months, or 4
>   years.

Not necessarily; UT1-UTC is required to be within +/- 0.9s, so a leap
second might be introduced early to avoid crossing the -0.9s barrier.

DES
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