<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > David L. Mills wrote: > > The scary part is the increased rate DUT1 is dropping. > > Well, we went 7 years without a leap second. Now we're getting back on > track to getting a leap year every year or two, maybe even "making up" > for some of the fun we missed from 1999 through 2005. > > Am I misinterpreting your editorial? :-). > > In terms of time software, 7 years is several generations worth of > programmers. It's good to have a leap second every year or two > otherwise we end up with the programmers, and their bosses, and their > bosses never having dealt with it before. > > Want me to fly over to Germany and get the Earth Rotation Service back > on the ball? > > Tim.
You'd better have good cell phone connectivity, 'cause the IERS is in Paris ;-) Brian > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
