In message <20070102201347.GB21404_at_ccil.org>, John Cowan writes:
>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.
Given the angular momentum required for such a hiccup, I think we would
have more prominent problems than DUT1>1.0s
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Received on Tue Jan 02 2007 - 12:27:47 PST