[ntp:questions] Re: GMT: UT1 vs UTC

Terje Mathisen terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Fri Oct 31 09:28:02 UTC 2003


fm at nowhere.fr wrote:
> http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/earthor/utc/leapsecond.html
> 
> clearly shows this flattening. 

Very instructive!

With hindsight, which almost by definition is hard to get, it would have 
been better to delay the last leap second by 6-18 months, that way the 
current gap wouldn't have exposed that Oncore firmware bug.

Terje

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