On 2011-02-03 08:04, Steve Allen wrote:
However, this suggestion of increasing the limit of DUT1 should go hand in hand with another change made in Rec. 460. The original draft of 460 which was presented to the CCIR Plenary Assembly suggested that the leaps should be full seconds or "integral multiples thereof".
Very interesting, thanks! The "double leap second" resurfaced in the ISO standard for C in 1989.
Somehow during the discussions at the Plenary Assembly the phrase in quotes was deleted before adoption of the draft recommendation.
They probably realized that |TAI - UTC| < 1 s excludes multiple leap seconds. Michael Deckers. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
