[LEAPSECS] leap in june

[Richard B. Langley]

There's a lot of crap being written about the upcoming leap second in the popular press -- the usual "end-of-the-world" stuff. A slightly refreshing article here:
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/

-- Richard Langley
 
On Friday, January 9, 2015, 9, at 9:24 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:

> They were wise enough to ask Markus to write it; a nice balance between popular and technical. They were kind enough to ask permission to use a cesium clock leap second photo from my web site. "Not something you see every day" indeed!
>  
> https://theconversation.com/an-extra-second-on-the-clock-why-moving-from-astronomic-to-atomic-time-is-a-tricky-business-35970
>  
> Markus -- your LOD plot ends in 2011?
>  
> /tvb
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