[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap second to be introduced at midnight UTC December 31 this year

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2016-07-20T09:34:47 -0600, Warner Losh hath writ:
> I seem to recall finding a really old version of TF.460 that didn't have the
> minimum time.

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html#1972

This URI targets the inception of leap seconds, but the surrounding
entries from 1969 to 1975 summarize the initial version (without any
guidelines at all) and the interactions which produced the first
revision that had a minimum time.

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