In a recent note, john gilmore said:
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:24:30 +0000
>
> The most recent, 2005 October, '-04', version of the Principles of Operation
> contains an additional table row for the 2005 EOY leap-second correction,
> which was +1.
>
I stand corrected. Where can/should I have found this?
Necrodendritic media?
> By international convention leap-second corrections
>
> o may be inserted only at midnight of July 30th and/or December 31st of the
> year and
>
ITYM June 30.
> o must be for an integer number of seconds.
>
> They are not, that is, required to be positive or for only one second at a
> time.
>
From:
Linkname: NIST Time and Frequency FAQ
URL: http://tf.nist.gov/general/leaps.htm#Anchor-52904
What is a leap second?
A leap second is a second added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to
make it agree with astronomical time to within 0.9 second.
I don't believe the 0.9 second constraint can be maintained while
inserting more than one leap second at a time. Proof is left as
an exercise for the reader.
-- gil
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