Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 Unisoft-Cosmos; site kepler.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ptsfa!well!micropro!kepler!mojo From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Leap seconds Message-ID: <157@kepler.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 05:26:32 EDT Article-I.D.: kepler.157 Posted: Sat Aug 10 05:26:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:48:21 EDT References: <2884@mordor.UUCP> <287@ubvax.UUCP> Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (mojo) Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA Lines: 21 In article <287@ubvax.UUCP> scott@ubvax.UUCP (Scott Scheiman) writes: >Quite a few years back they came only every few years, at midnight >beginning a new year. Then a year came when they added a leap second at >both ends of the year. This year we had a leap second added >between June and July (I think). I don't know why it was added in the >middle of the year this year, but my guess is that we now have to have >more than one leap second added per year and adding two on Jan. 1 >(Dec. 31?) would be more disruptive than "smoothing" it out by adding I believe they have a stated goal of keeping Coordinated Universal Time within a second of astronomical time -- hence the scattered addition of leap seconds. I know that WWV brodcasts a correction, plus or minus seven tenths of a second or so, to correct CUT to astronomical. You count the double clicks before or after the minute mark to get the correction. P.S., Scott, I like your frog. "Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Mojo ... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development {dual,ptsfa,hplabs}!well!micropro!kepler!mojo