On 2020-08-08 10:46, John Sauter via LEAPSECS wrote:
UT2 captures the seasonal change in the length of day, so it can be
ignored for long-term estimates. The important number, therefore, is
-0.00010, which I will call the UT1 slope.
Perhaps "slope of UT2 - UTC (as predicted by the
I believe there will be several years between the the last leap second
and the next, as there was between December 31, 1998 and December 31,
2005. The IERS publishes a long-term prediction of the average
rotation rate of the Earth, which they update in their Bulletin A each
week. The August 6,
