Also, the moons orbital distance increases by 4 cm a year, slowing the earth. We will be adding leap seconds more often until in a few thousand years our days will be 1 second longer.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Jim Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since the leap second can only occur on June 30 or December 31, it is not >> that hard to write the PTF and stockpile it. > > As Mike has previously said, it is possible for a leap second to be > inserted on the last day of ANY month. > > Jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
