[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Mark Calabretta wrote:

> On Thu 2011/02/10 10:43:40 -0000, Tony Finch wrote

> >

> >Also, the "quadratic catastrophe" argument is usually used in support of

> >UTC.

>

> Really?  Can you provide references for that.


See for example
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-January/002124.html
where Rob Seaman wrote "Civil timekeeping is cumulative. Tiny mistakes
posing the problem will result in large and growing permanent errors."

Tony.
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