On Sun 2016-07-10T11:27:33 +0300, Saku Ytti hath writ:
So how can we solve the problem? Immediately and long term?
The ITU-R had the question of leap seconds on their agenda for 14 years and did not come up with an answer. Their 2015 decision was to drop the question and ask an alphabet soup of international acronym agencies to come up with something better by 2023. The problem remains that simply abandoning leap seconds has the effect of redefining the calendar, and Pope Gregory's last attempt to do that took 300 years to consolidate. For time scales there are three desirable goals, but it is only possible to pick two http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/picktwo.html -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m