On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:40 +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > John Sauter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have proposed a schedule of leap seconds prior to 1972 based on > the > > Earth's rotation rate, which was deduced from ancient observations > of > > the Sun and Moon. The complete paper is available on my web site, > at > > > > https://www.systemeyescomputerstore.com/proleptic_UTC.pdf. > > In December 2006 I described a "proleptic UTC" which quantized UTC's > rubber seconds era of the 196s0 in the style of post-1972 UTC. > > http://fanf.livejournal.com/69586.html > > The idea was to allow a software system that knows about TAI and > modern > UTC to be able to describe times in the 1960s accurate to about 1s, > and > smoothly blend back to the pre-atomic era in which it ignores the > differences between UTC and TAI. > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h > punycode > Trafalgar: Southwest 4 or 5 in southeast, otherwise, southwest 5 to > 7, > increasing gale 8 at times. Rough or very rough. Showers. Good.
I referenced your web site in my article, and used your schedule of leap seconds for 1958 through 1971. In effect, I am extending your work back to -1000. John Sauter ([email protected]) -- PGP fingerprint = E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603 49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E
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