[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2022-10-04T14:20:46-0700 Paul Eggert via tz hath writ:
> Predicting length of day (LOD) is a tricky business with no real consensus.
> That being said, Tyler predicted that for the next 3 billion years LOD will
> increase roughly linearly, to 30 hours. So assuming our timekeeping
> civilization lasts long enough, eventually we'll need something, even if
> it's not leap seconds.

A decade ago two state of the art atomic clocks would agree with
other within 1 second after 300 million years.
In 300 million years a calendar based on purely atomic time will have
counted 3 billion more days than have been witnessed by people living
on the surface of Earth.

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