Hi Shiro,

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Shiro Kawai <[email protected]> wrote:

> In section 6.14, the description of current-second reads:
>
>    The value 0.0 represents midnight on January 1, 1970 TAI
>    (equivalent to ten seconds before midnight Universal Time)
>
> However, according to the TAI-UTC table
> ( ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat ),
> it appears that TAI-UTC difference reached 10s
> only after 1972.  Here's the excerpt of the table:
>
>  1966 JAN  1 =JD 2439126.5  TAI-UTC=   4.3131700 S + (MJD - 39126.) X 
> 0.002592 S
>  1968 FEB  1 =JD 2439887.5  TAI-UTC=   4.2131700 S + (MJD - 39126.) X 
> 0.002592 S
>  1972 JAN  1 =JD 2441317.5  TAI-UTC=  10.0       S + (MJD - 41317.) X 0.0     
>  S
>  1972 JUL  1 =JD 2441499.5  TAI-UTC=  11.0       S + (MJD - 41317.) X 0.0     
>  S
>  1973 JAN  1 =JD 2441683.5  TAI-UTC=  12.0       S + (MJD - 41317.) X 0.0     
>  S
>
> Before 1972 the formula is a bit involved, but January 1, 1970
>
> is MJD 40587, and the TAI-UTC difference is about 8s.
>
>
> I'm not very familiar in this field so it's likely that
>
> I'm missing something.  Are there a reference I can look up
>
> for the "ten seconds" explanation in R7RS?
>
>
>
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