-------- Steve Allen writes: > On Tue 2022-07-26T23:33:15+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > > So looking at the IERS LOD plot going all the way back it seems to > > me that we have been missing the big signal for about five decades: > > > > > > https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=EOPC04_14_62-NOW_IAU2000A-LOD&id=224 > > > > How did we not notice that earlier ? > > even better is the view from the Paris bureau at > https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php > which at the moment is showing a Vondrak filtering
But only from 2000 forward, would be interesting to see it for the full data-set. > The rotation of the earth's crust started accelerating right when > the CCIR decided that we should start using leap seconds. Yes, it does indeed look like 1970-ish is a turning point, but it is always dangerous to declare such to close to the end of the data... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
