[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

[michael.deckers]

    On 2011-02-03 08:04, Steve Allen wrote:

>   However, this suggestion of increasing the limit of DUT1 should

>   go hand in hand with another change made in Rec. 460.  The original

>   draft of 460 which was presented to the CCIR Plenary Assembly

>   suggested that the leaps should be full seconds or "integral

>   multiples thereof".

>

    Very interesting, thanks! The "double leap second" resurfaced
    in the ISO standard for C in 1989.


>   Somehow during the discussions at the Plenary Assembly the phrase

>   in quotes was deleted before adoption of the draft recommendation.

    They probably realized that |TAI - UTC| < 1 s excludes multiple
    leap seconds.

    Michael Deckers.