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US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds

Posted by kdawson on from the great-leap-forward dept.

@10u8 writes "For time scales to leap, or not to leap, has been the question here before. The ITU-R will be considering leap seconds again in a few weeks. This week the USNO posted a survey about leap seconds by the US DoD. The issue has civil implications as well as technical ones, and there is a demonstrated way to respect the history, remove leaps from navigation and POSIX time, yet keep the sun overhead at noon."

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  1. Re:Leap seconds fix a diferent problem by bickerdyke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah. an hour is meant to be 1/24 of a day. but unfortunatly, every day has a different length. You can have a look at the length of the days for each day the past 2 years here: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/

    Yep, that means that meanwhile, our clocks are far more precise than the earth rotation itself.

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    bickerdyke