[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Sam Mason]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:29:13PM +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> "As of 2004, the possibility of ending the use of leap seconds in civil
> time is being considered. A likely means to execute this change is to
> define a new time scale, called "International Time", that initially
> matches UTC but thereafter has no leap seconds, thus remaining at a
> constant offset from TAI. If this happens, it is likely that Unix time
> will be prospectively defined in terms of this new time scale, instead of
> UTC. Uncertainty about whether this will occur makes prospective Unix time
> no less predictable than it already is: if UTC were simply to have no
> further leap seconds the result would be the same."

The Wikipedia entry fails to mention when this change could occur.  As
far as I can tell the proposal is to change it in 2022[1,2], not much
help for Coyotos.


  Sam

 [1] http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html
 [2] http://www.ien.it/luc/cesio/itu/annex_a.pdf