Re: [LEAPSECS] trading amplitude for scheduling

From: John Cowan <cowan_at_CCIL.ORG>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:48:57 -0400

Rob Seaman scripsit:

> >1) We have leap seconds because the SI second is shorter
> >than 1/86,400 of a mean solar day.

*facepalm*

Post in haste, repent at leisure (I've been going with too little
sleep lately, for reasons unknown...) I actually do know that
the earth rotates in less than 1 mean solar day.

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Received on Fri Aug 04 2006 - 10:49:08 PDT

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