On Wed 2021-01-06T10:36:10-0800 Tom Van Baak hath writ: > Does anyone know who started it? Is there a way to track it down?
I am pretty sure that it started when some reporter meandered over to timeanddate.com and then started writing a followup. They have had a running dashboard showing just how long each day has been according to the IERS bureau predictions and keeping a sports statistics page on how the earth is doing. They ran a year end article looking over the stats https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-faster-rotation.html -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
