PHK and I are on the same page with this. By all means announce leap seconds with significantly more notice. - Rob --
On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > ... > I find it much more intesting that Bernard Guinot goes on the record > on page 183: > > They are not theoretically predictable, but smooth enough > for an empirical prediction to less than ±1 s over 3 years > > and: > Tests on real data from 1955 to the present, made by the > author, have shown that a linear prediction based on one > year of values of UT1 - TAI led to a maximum error less > than 0.6 s in two years after the last observed values. > After three years, the maximum was 1.0 s. > > So giving us 3 years notice of leap seconds instead of six months > should be a total no-brainer. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
