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Re:Should the leap second be eliminated? by maggit on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:04AM (#3483973)
Four times a year, with up to two seconds added each time should put an upper bound for adjustments accumulated over 500 years to:

500 years * 4 updates/year * 2 seconds/update = 4000 seconds = 66 2/3 minutes

So an hour in 500 years seems to require adjusting almost as much as we can, which isn't realistic.

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