[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20110602214647.GH15152 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>On Thu 2011-06-02T21:39:13 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:



>> It is a good and instructive example of how leap seconds makes life

>> more difficult for programmers.

>

>Much of that math, the 4-transforms, the gravitational potential

>expansions, the time ephemeris, the ionization delay, depends on

>somebody's estimate of what is, in effect, weather in the universe at

>large.


I suspect a lot of those "somebody" have "phd." after their names,
99.99% or more of the worlds programmers do not.

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