[LEAPSECS] Leap Seconds schedule prior to 1972

[Paul Hirose]

On 2016-04-22 1:37, John Sauter wrote:
> My goal in the paper is to extend the modern definition of UTC back in
> time.  Hence, I use the rules of UTC whenever possible.  Thus,
> extraordinary days are the last day of the month, and are limited to
> 86,399 or 86,401 seconds.  Considering that Morrison and Stephenson did
> the heavy lifting in determining delta T, I wished to defer to them.
>
> To address the coding problem, I have been thinking that I should
> create a table of extraordinary days and publish it.

That term "extraordinary day" is new to me in the context of UTC. Is it 
something you invented? In the paper you use it repeatedly and avoid 
saying "leap second" until the conclusion, where you propose a name for 
the new time scale ("proleptic UTC with leap seconds").