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Re: no leap second coming in December
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Jul 28, 13:01 GMT
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Jul 28, 13:01 GMT
By the way, sitting in Paris to the end of this week, I had read Howses's "Greenwich time" in the evenings. I have returned it already, but I remember that in the chapter about UT1, UT2, ET, UTC and so on, the author gives very tiny values for the yearly slowing of the Earth' rotation (in the graphs, not in the text, where no values stand, if I remember it O.K.), absolutely incomparable with the amount of cca 0,7 sec per year, valid up to the 1995 or so, according to your discussion. Is it the mistake of my memory or didn'n I understand the text well? (Red wine is my hobby here, this can be the cause of my being so dull.) Yours, Jan Kalivoda