On 2020-07-07 22:37, Steve Allen wrote:
The earth has accelerated so that it is spinning as fast as it was during World War 2, and before that, the 1890s.
Yes, Bulletin A vol 33 no 027 predicts that 2020 will be the first year since 1972 without change of DUT1 (= UT1 - UTC up to 0.1 s). And its prediction for the (seasonally smoothed) length of day after 2021.5 is d(UTC)/d(UT2) ~= 1 + 0.13 ms/d. Michael Deckers. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs