[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Fri Jul 22 06:18:23 EDT 2016


Tom Van Baak <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote:
>
> > Does your proposal allow for a Zero leap second
>
> Nope, LSEM avoids the zero leap second situation. That's the idea: to
> always have a leap second. Either an add or a delete, at the end of
> every month. The beauty is that it wouldn't violate how UTC is already
> defined.

Isn't the limit on DUTC 0.9s? So you can't have a leap second at the end
of the month when | UT1 - UTC | < 0.1

Tony.
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