Isn’t the question whether those responsible for issuing leap seconds will follow through and trigger a negative leap second even if Bulletin A says it’s time? Much consternation will be feigned.
Rob Seaman Lunar and Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona On 3/19/23, 5:21 PM, "LEAPSECS" wrote: On Sun 2023-03-19T19:24:56-0400 Demetrios Matsakis via LEAPSECS hath writ: > https://insidegnss.com/will-we-have-a-negative-leap-second/ > Will We Have a Negative Leap Second? The USNO predictions in IERS Bulletin A have been pretty good... https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/bulla52w.html It will be interesting to see what kind of consternation arises if the predictions start saying the negative leap is impending. Somewhere in USNO/UKHO somebody has been making longer term predictions for use in the navigational almanacs, but as far as I know those have never been published. -- 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
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