Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >> Provided you get the funding sorted out, I'm all for it. > >What funding? M. Gambis already has this authority as long as he >stays within the +/- 0.9s window. I could imagine that M. Gambis would run short of funds and possibly employment

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Seaman
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: What clever chap was it who suggested ALWAYS having a leap second at the end of each month - toggling positive and negative? An actual leap transition then becomes the omission of a (negative) leap. Since system

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >What clever chap was it who suggested ALWAYS having a leap second at >the end of each month - toggling positive and negative? An actual >leap transition then becomes the omission of a (negative) leap. Since >systems would have to deal wi

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Seaman
On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: And the interesting one of course is: http://www.iers.org/plots/FinalsAllIAU1980-UT1-UTC-BULA.png This is an up to date version of the first figure (labeled figure 3) from my screed of exactly seven years ago today: htt

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Fi nch writes: >On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > >> Yeah, I saw that too, but haven't figured out what symbols he's talking >> about. >> I just see the familiar text files. Anybody have specific links? > >http://www.iers.org/MainDisp.csl?pid=36-1100218

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > Yeah, I saw that too, but haven't figured out what symbols he's talking about. > I just see the familiar text files. Anybody have specific links? http://www.iers.org/MainDisp.csl?pid=36-1100218 The link is the small white square with the red diagonal line

Re: [LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Seaman
Yeah, I saw that too, but haven't figured out what symbols he's talking about. I just see the familiar text files. Anybody have specific links? Rob -- On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:07 AM, Richard B. Langley wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:50:40 +0200 From: [

[LEAPSECS] IERS Message No. 129: Plots of Earth Orientation Data (fwd)

2008-04-09 Thread Richard B. Langley
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