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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Fischer)
Tue Jul 3 21:07:07 2012
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1207032222360.23668@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:06:21 -0400
From: Randy Fischer <randy.fischer@gmail.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> Leap seconds are to align the artificial and very stable atomic timescale
> with the irregular and slowing rotation of the earth.
>
What do you want to use for a clock? It is convenient (if provincial) for
me to use the sky as the ultimate clock. Thus these adjustments.
