[LEAPSECS] Nov 8 statement?

[Richard B. Langley]

"The additional small, albeit increasing, offset that will result from  
the abolition of leap seconds will remain insignificant compared to  
the already existing annual variations in local solar time on the  
Greenwich meridian. These variations, which amount to plus and minus  
about sixteen minutes, are due to the orbit of the Earth around the  
Sun being an ellipse rather than a circle and to it being inclined  
with respect to the Equator. In addition, there exists the range of  
local solar times across the UK from East to West which amount to some  
thirty minutes."

What has local solar time got to do with anything? Simply another  
attempted dig by the French on the English? Plus ça change, plus c'est  
la même chose. ;-)

-- Richard Langley

On 12-Nov-11, at 12:11 AM, Dennis Ferguson wrote:


>

> On 11 Nov, 2011, at 20:21 , Steve Allen wrote:

>

>> according to

>> http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/canada/Time+move+Canada+resists+change+atomic+timekeeping/5698405/story.html

>> and many other syndication points for that article

>> there was a Nov 8 statement from Quinn and Arias.

>>

>> Can anyone point to that statement?

>

> I think it is this one:

>

>    http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Press_Release_UTC_21st_century.pdf

>

> Dennis Ferguson

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