[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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