Re: [LEAPSECS] Accommodating both camps

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_PHK.FREEBSD.DK>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:51:16 +0100

In message <43D65C68.1040109_at_usa.net>, James Maynard writes:

>I wonder, though, whether those in the other camp would find it
>acceptable

It is not the broadcasting that is our major problem, it is the
announcement horizon.

If the IERS would announce leapseconds 10 years in advance, most
of us would not have an issue with them.

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