[LEAPSECS] Pentagon Papers

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2009-01-01T06:08:35 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:

> Hmmm.  It would be interesting to do some traffic analysis on

> publications, both online and print.


Recall that William Markowitz, whose urgent hard work resulted in the
choice of the length of the atomic second as well as contributing to
the existence of the flavors of UT0, UT1, UT2 died 1998-10-10
http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/history/markowitz.html

Then at the 33rd CGSIC meeting on 1999-03-18 William Klepczinski
gave a presentation suggesting abandoning leap seconds.

Than at the 31st PTTI on 1999-12-07/09 was their first panel
discussion on the subject.

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