This is a very brief description of what happened at last October's ITU
meeting in Geneva.
A resolution was proposed to redefine UTC by replacing leap seconds by leap
hours, effective at a specific date which I believe was something like 2020.
This proposal was not passed, but remains under
There is a nifty google feature that will scour the internet for news
articles on any subject, and send you weeky, daily, or immediate
notifications.
Browse on http://www.google.com/alerts
Beware- If you ask for 'leap second' you will get more than you want!
Ask for leap second, and you will
The answer to the intial query depends upon what you mean by active.
Ron Beard, Chair of the ITU's Special Rapporteur Group is on the list.
Also Dennis McCarthy, who is Chair of the IAU's Working Group on the Leap
Second.
I am less active, particucularly lately, but have been known to forward
FYI this was written for
distribution to all interested parties.
WP 7A meeting in Geneva August 28, 2006.doc
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My few-month old mac gives me a message saying This attachment is a type
not yet supported I also get this problem on my XP at home but not on the
one at my office. A newphew of mine forwarded me the reason once, and it is
related to shortcuts in the email bit-pattern. I forget which software
As many have pointed out on this forum, these various timescales do have
very specific meanings which often fade at levels coarser than a few
nanoseconds (modulo 1 second), and which at times are misapplied at the
1-second and higher level.
GPS Time is technically an implicit ensemble mean. You
Dear Leap-seconders,
For the past seven years, this listserve has served as a forum for a
considerable amount of discussion on UTC, generating some heat but more
light. I have enjoyed my mostly-silent role as listserve manager,
particularly as most of the real work was done by David Johns (and
