On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Peter Vince <petervince1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am interested that Google have chosen to linearly smear over 20 hours, > thus increasing each second in that period by 13.8888... microseconds - > surely such an irrational step is difficult to achieve? Could it be that > they actually step 125 microseconds every 9 seconds, or maybe 25 > microseconds every 1.8 seconds?
No, there are no steps. > I'm also curious about the change from cosine to linear smear: the linear > smear results in a very sharp step change in frequency, exactly what we > DON'T do, whereas the cosine smear has a very smooth and gentle change, > surely more easily followed. That was the motivation for using the cosine curve back in 2008, but it turns out not to be an issue in practice. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
