I agree. ------------------ Skip Newhall ------------------
Valencia, CA E-mail: x...@sn.to Phone: 1-661-259-9999 -----Original Message----- From: LEAPSECS [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Steve Allen Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 11:08 AM To: Leap Second Discussion List Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science On Tue 2017-01-31T13:58:15 -0500, Brooks Harris hath writ: > Ah, so who's right? I prefer to think of a leap second as being truly intercalary. It is saying to atomic clock "It's not tomorrow yet, wait a second." It is between one calendar day of UTC and the next calendar day of UTC. It belongs to neither of them. The tag 2016-12-31T23:59:60 is merely a way of indicating which two days it is between. It is unfortunate that nobody thought this stuff through in 1969 when the decision was made to implement the leap second, and no matter how it is expressed, encoded, and calculated it will be a special case. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs