On Wed 2008-11-05T10:46:04 -0700, M. Warner Losh hath writ: > It is the first leap second that's been encountered since the US > officially adopted UTC. Until recently, the official time of the US > was mean solar time. However, it isn't quite that simple, since it > was mean solar time, as interpreted by the Secretary of Commerce, > which delegated it to NIST/NRO/etc who realized it with UTC since the > 1980s at least...
I admit that I am pedantic. The point is that no epoch-based time scale can retrospectively agree with the times in actual use. They're all a fiction. also, Tom Van Baak pointed out that Internet Explorer did not like the initial javascript. The counts should now update with any browser that's still reasonably safe to use on the web http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
