After reading http://www.wzonline.de/nachrichten/newsdetails-allgemein/article/eine-sekunde-zuviel.html I find myself holding on to my towel and saying:
"This must be some new definition of the word 'erwarten' with which I'm not familiar." To wit, the weather (in particular the effects of the derecho on June 29/30) is a predictable kind of thing, but a leap second was unexpected. This is a stark contrast to the report of sysmanager pager activations at http://blog.pagerduty.com/2012/07/a-utc-leap-second-vs-derecho/ where it seems that different ways of massaging the data can lead to varying interpretations about whether the derecho or the leap second was worse. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street 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
