Re: [LEAPSECS] Introduction of long term scheduling

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_DOTAT.AT>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 01:34:29 +0000

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>
> Formulas for UTC, as actually defined at the time, go back to 1961
> here:

You helpfully snipped the part where I said that it probably isn't
worth implementing rubber seconds.

> ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat
> It appears the offset was 1.4228180 seconds at the start of this.

If you extend the initial period backwards to the start of 1958 then the
offset drops close to zero.

Tony.
--
f.a.n.finch  <dot_at_dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
FITZROY: WEST BACKING SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8. ROUGH OR VERY
ROUGH, OCCASIONALLY HIGH. SHOWERS, THEN RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD.
Received on Sun Jan 07 2007 - 17:45:05 PST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 04 2010 - 09:44:55 PDT