On Thu 2005-08-04T09:27:20 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
> So one feasible option is to predetermine all leapseconds (or
> leap minutes ?) for the next 50 years in advance.
>
> That means an UT1-UTC difference that could go as high as 20-30
> seconds but it is still locked and bounded (by our knowledge of
> geophysics, admittedly, but bounded nontheless).
This was one of the options presented by McCarthy around 1999 during
the early ruminations about changing UTC. It was quickly excluded
from the list of possible options, even before the Torino conference
when Arias further discussed the predictive capabilities.
It would be interesting to know why this option was excluded, but then
it would be interesting to really know why any of this is happening.
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