There's a lot of crap being written about the upcoming leap second in the popular press -- the usual "end-of-the-world" stuff. A slightly refreshing article here: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/
-- Richard Langley On Friday, January 9, 2015, 9, at 9:24 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > They were wise enough to ask Markus to write it; a nice balance between > popular and technical. They were kind enough to ask permission to use a > cesium clock leap second photo from my web site. "Not something you see every > day" indeed! > > https://theconversation.com/an-extra-second-on-the-clock-why-moving-from-astronomic-to-atomic-time-is-a-tricky-business-35970 > > Markus -- your LOD plot ends in 2011? > > /tvb > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: l...@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://gge.unb.ca/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.fredericton.ca/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs