[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

[Steve Summit]

Paul wrote:
> On 10/4/22 13:15, Michael H Deckers via tz wrote:
> > in Paris will vote on the proposal D on pages 7..8 and 23..24
>
> For those who haven't seen it, this proposal would abolish leap seconds...
> Although this obviously won't work in the long term, leap seconds
> wouldn't work either because days will become too long for them too.

As I understand it, one way of looking at the new, leap-secondless
plan is that if you wait long enough, the multi-minute jump that
you then need isn't a "leap" anything, it's a political change
to the definition of a time zone, readily handled by the well-tried
mechanism that we on this list all know and love.