[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2011-06-02T21:39:13 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> It is a good and instructive example of how leap seconds makes life

> more difficult for programmers.


The CDF document references these

IERS Conventions <http://www.iers.org/nn_11216/IERS/EN/Publications/TechnicalNotes/>

TEMPO 2 reducing pulsar timing observations <http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/ppta/tempo2/>

Much of that math, the 4-transforms, the gravitational potential
expansions, the time ephemeris, the ionization delay, depends on
somebody's estimate of what is, in effect, weather in the universe at
large.

By comparison leap seconds are trivial.

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