> Is it time for a LEAPSECS betting pool on when the first negative
leap second is deleted?
Yes. Or when UTC will stop having leap seconds, yes.
Here's betting on leap seconds; in a long thread from 2012:
[LEAPSECS] Straw men
https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2012-January/003762.html
Here's a prediction about 2020; from 2014:
> Any betting person would say the plot shows an upward trend over the
> past 40 years. A simple linear fit suggests the earth will be back to an
> honest 86400 second day within a few years, around MJD ~59000 (year
~2020).
[LEAPSECS] earth speeding up
https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2014-April/005102.html
Attached are the plots from the above posting.
/tvb
On 7/12/2020 8:07 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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Tony Finch writes:
The LOD is hovering around 0 and the UT1-UTC chart is looking remarkably flat.
https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=FinalsAllIAU2000A-UT1-UTC-BULA&id=9
https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=FinalsAllIAU2000A-LOD-BULA&id=9
Is it time for a LEAPSECS betting pool on when the first negative leap second
is deleted ?
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