[LEAPSECS] private smear goes public

[Michael Shields]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> wrote:
> One wishes announments like this were a bit more accurate. They say "...
> we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten
> hours after the leap second ...", but I think it must be closer to
> 0.00138888 percent. I wonder what precision they use?

It would, of course, take an infinite number of decimal digits to
represent the actual ratio.  The calculations are done at nanosecond
precision.