Actually it is pretty easy to avoid leap seconds as they are usually
introduced on June 30 or Dec 31 and only 25 leap seconds have been
introduced in the last 40 years, the most recent one on June 30th,
2012...given that figure, the implied error due to leap seconds is much
much less than the simple example below.
Dave
Now my head is beginning to hurt as I ponder the reasons why man exists
and the statistical probability of sentiment life in the rest of the
universe. I am now going to find a beer and kill off a few of my 1.2 x
10^11 brain cells..hopefully I will get the ones that care about this
stuff at all.
On 7/13/2012 10:49 AM, Artekmedia wrote:
There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24
hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a
bit less than 1PPM.
Dave
"Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben
Franklin
On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote:
But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is
being set? ;)
Steve
On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<[email protected]>
wrote:
In message<[email protected]>, Artekmedia writes:
Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for
that :-)
Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-)
On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In
message<CAE6XXrjKES2=bpcnyzocbxfm73+4ztotakuecttaqtsduvr...@mail.gmail.com>
, Will writes:
No practical quantum Ampere so far?
It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in
terms of
electron charges per second...
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