[LEAPSECS] The leap second, deep space and how we keep time -Brooks

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Wed Jan 28 10:27:43 EST 2015


On Wed 2015-01-28T15:10:09 +0000, Alex Currant via LEAPSECS hath writ:
> I have trouble believing people who keep misleading and outdated
> information on their web pages

Following up the issue from last week about how big will the
difference between Atomic Time and Universal Time get during
this century I note this followup by the Wall Street Journal

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/reader-mailbag-second-guessing-on-leap-seconds-1919/

Edward Powers of USNO estimates that AT and UT would differ by
one hour in 500 years.  That is a faster rate of divergence
than anything on my web pages, and very different from the
random walk estimate of Matsakis at USNO.

If there is a problem with my web pages I will be happy to debate
it either publicly or discus it privately.

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