[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Dennis Ferguson]

Whoops.  Never mind the "calling several things" part.  I'm a Mac user
and some things require Adobe software to read correctly.  The rest of
the sentence still seems correct, though.

Dennis Ferguson

On 10 Jan, 2012, at 15:10 , Dennis Ferguson wrote:


> 

> On 10 Jan, 2012, at 14:39 , Rob Seaman wrote:

> 

>> Gotta love this equation:

>> 

>> 	UT1 = UTC +  UT1 + UT1 (t – tEOP)

> 

> You do have to love it, because beyond calling several different things

> UT1 (and unless I'm missing something, which is always possible) it seems

> to imply either that they expect UTC to be leap-less by the time they are

> finished doing this or that they have a leap second bug (or at least an

> ambiguity) in their specification.  The above suggests that the UT1 offset

> needs to leap when UTC does, but I don't see where it says how that happens.

> 

> Dennis Ferguson