[LEAPSECS] earth speeding up

[Tom Van Baak]

> Negative leapseconds are *much* easier to implemnent that

> positive leapseconds:  They just look like the world stopped for

> a second, and they leave no timestamp ambiguity.


I agree with PHK. Aside the issue of potentially unexpected missing second, at least negative leap seconds are compatible with conventional sexagesimal notation, which is to say, compatible with analog clock displays.

/tvb