[time-nuts] How many seconds in a year?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Oct 15 01:13:10 UTC 2008


In message: <a06240500c51aecf2bb80@[192.168.0.24]>
            David Forbes <dforbes at dakotacom.net> writes:
: So there is no way to build a clock today that is guaranteed to count 
: seconds correctly in future years, short of having it receive leap 
: second announcements twice a year and adjust its timekeeping 
: accordingly.

Unless it has a built-in sundial :-)

Warner

P.S.  And even then only if DUT1 is held < 1s



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