[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information
Mark Calabretta
mark at calabretta.id.au
Mon Jan 12 09:07:57 EST 2015
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:58:08 -0800
"Tom Van Baak" <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote:
> The web is full of incorrect and outdated leap second information and tables. Here's one example:
>
> Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
> http://www.iausofa.org/2001_0331/Timescales.html
> Delta(AT) (=TAI-UTC) for a given UTC date.
> http://www.iausofa.org/2001_0331/sofa/dat.for
> where we read "Latest leap second: 1999 January 1"
To be fair, and here I declare myself as an ex-member of the SOFA
board, the software is clearly labelled "2001-03-31 release". That
page is no longer even accessible from the SOFA home page where the
latest release is dated 2014-10-07.
Regards,
Mark Calabretta
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