> The front page of today's Wall Street Journal has an article about the > debate. The headline is "Why the US wants to End the Link Between Time > and Sun." > > Unfortunately, I don't get the electronic edition so can't cut-and paste. > > From the article, it appears the USNO was the author of the proposal. > IT's attributed to Dennis D. McCarthy, who was "the Navy's 'Director of > Time'." > > The first part of the article is mainly about the anti-leapsecond > arguments, but the latter part points out the opposition. There's a > quote from Rob Seaman (among others). > > John
I don't get the electronic edition either but see: http://www.leapsecond.com/history/wsj2005.htm They twice mentioned 62 o'clock. The history and technical details behind capturing that event are at: http://www.leapsecond.com/notes/leapsec256.htm /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts