[LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

[Richard Langley]

CHU got it right:
https://archive.org/details/CHULeapSecond7.850MHz30June20152355UTC
One time they didn't -- they screwed up the DUT1 value after the leap.
-- Richard

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| Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang at unb.ca         |
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From: LEAPSECS <leapsecs-bounces at leapsecond.com> on behalf of Richard Langley <lang at unb.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:12 PM
To: Leap Second Discussion List
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

;-)
The picture of me on the front of our papers today shows me pretending to use one of my sextants. Readers (viewers?) might not notice but there is a picture of one on the UNB GNSS antennas in the background. Nice juxtaposition, I thought. Might try to scan it for others to "enjoy."
An "op ed" piece I had written for our papers but which they decided not to run in favour of their cub reporter's story is on the GPS World website instead:
http://gpsworld.com/its-leap-second-day-time-to-get-in-sync/
-- Richard
P.S. I'm having my single malt early, i.e., right now so please down weight anything I'm writing accordingly. ;-) Just came in from checking CHU reception on one of my portable SW receivers (have to get away from all of the RFI in the house). Quite good right now on 7850 kHz.

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| Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang at unb.ca         |
| Geodetic Research Laboratory                  Web: http://gge.unb.ca      |
| Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering    Phone:    +1 506 453-5142   |
| University of New Brunswick                   Fax:      +1 506 453-4943   |
| Fredericton, N.B., Canada  E3B 5A3                                        |
|        Fredericton?  Where's that?  See: http://www.fredericton.ca/       |
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From: LEAPSECS <leapsecs-bounces at leapsecond.com> on behalf of Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 4:51 PM
To: Leap Second Discussion List
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

Hi Richard,

> "Matsakis advocates the abolition of the leap second, pointing out that we already spend so much our time out of sync with the earth’s rotation.”

So what you’re saying is that Demetrios won’t so much be celebrating for himself?  ;-)

> “This is what happens in the summertime,” he says. “We do Daylight Savings.”

Well, northern summer and only a small fraction of the world does DST.

Is it too late to get an option E added of simply scheduling “summer" leap seconds on the last Sunday morning in June?

Rob
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