[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2022-10-04T21:11:51-0700 Paul Eggert via tz hath writ:
> This should be fun once we start changing time zones to to be more than 24
> hours away from where they are now. Espenak & Meeus 2006[1] predict that
> this will be around the year 7000. It will be like "Around the World in
> Eighty Days", but in slow motion and involving the whole planet rather than
> just Phileas Fogg and Passepartout.
>
> [1] according to RH van Gent's ΔT Calculator
> <https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/deltat/deltat_main.htm>.

Morrison, Stephenson, Hohenkerk, Zawilski
Addendum 2020 to 'Measurement of the Earth's rotation: 720 BC to AD 2015'
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.2020.0776

their extrapolation (which they will tell you not to believe) also
puts Delta T of 24 h a little after year 7000

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