[LEAPSECS] Possible outcomes ?

[Richard B. Langley]

An aside:

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013,225, at 8:59 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:


> And for another thing, leap seconds can't just "go".  The long-term quadratic trend that was described in the 1999 McCarthy and Klepczynski article (http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf) guarantees that we'll have to deal with the embargoed leap seconds at some point.


Gee, I wish I still looked like my picture at the end of the article! Time flies when you're having fun -- as I do most days in my job as an academic (researcher, teacher, writer, and so on). ;-) 

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