Thanks to Steve Allen for his excellent efforts to enable public
discussion of the proposals to abolish leap seconds, difficult though
that task has been, given the official secrecy that has surrounded it.
See e.g. this quote from a Wall Street Journal article in July
Why the US wants to end link
On Tue 2005-11-08T10:52:21 -0700, Neal McBurnett hath writ:
If anyone knows of a new place to find the latest proposal, please
post it. And does anyone know where to find an archive of the
comments made in response to the proposal?
In the meantime, I highly recommend Steve's excellent web
I can post to the leapsecs list, but like some other people, I haven't
gotten any mail from it for over a month. FYI, here is an update from
the admin at USNO:
- Forwarded message from David Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Sorry about the problems with the mailing list. It's very old
In 2004 the USWP7A submitted a draft proposed revised version of ITU-R
TF.460, the document which defines UTC. The document was submitted to
the ITAC-R and reviewed according to Department of State guidelines.
The archival version is still available from the FCC website:
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: After all, it's not like the world is going to come to an end.
If the end of the world is what it takes to abolish leap seconds, I'm
all for it :-)
Warner
