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Does that mean we expect there to be more than a couple of leap seconds every year? (Based on the "more than an hour over 500 years" statement)
by Lewton 15y ago
Does that mean we expect there to be more than a couple of leap seconds every year? (Based on the "more than an hour over 500 years" statement)
- chalst 15y agoErr, yes, that does sound an order of magnitude out, now I come to think of it. The original proposal allows updates four times a year, though only the July and December updates have been used.
- maggit 15y agoFour times a year, with up to two seconds added each time should put an upper bound for adjustments accumulated over 500 years to: 500 years * 4 updates/year * 2 seconds/update = 4000 seconds = 66 2/3 minutes So an hour in 500 years seems to require adjusting almost as much as we can, which isn't realistic.