Warner Losh scripsit:
> There's no provision for emergency leapseconds. They just have to be
> at the end of the month, and annoucned 8 weeks in advance. IERS has
> actually exceeded this mandate by announcing them ~24 weeks in advance
> in recent history.
So much the worse. That means that if the Earth hiccups on March 7, the
value of |DUT1| will not return to normal until May 31.
--
John Cowan cowan_at_ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves.
-- Julius Caesar
Received on Tue Jan 02 2007 - 12:14:23 PST