Re: [LEAPSECS] What happened in the late 1990s to slow the rate of leap seconds?

In message <20151109025137.a95a8406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Murray write s: >There is a nice graph here: > http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/earthor/utc/leapsecond.html > >Was there a geological incident that explains things? We don't know, but the period had other peculari

Re: [LEAPSECS] What happened in the late 1990s to slow the rate of leap seconds?

On Sun 2015-11-08T18:51:37 -0800, Hal Murray hath writ: > Was there a geological incident that explains things? The crust of the earth has accelerated its rate of rotation during most of the past 100 years. The slowest rotation ever was around 1912, and since then it has been rotating faster. By

[LEAPSECS] What happened in the late 1990s to slow the rate of leap seconds?

There is a nice graph here: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/earthor/utc/leapsecond.html Was there a geological incident that explains things? We didn't have any leap seconds for 7 years. From the leap second file: 3124137600 32 # 1 Jan 1999 3345062400 33 # 1 Jan 2006 The