[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Michael Shields]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:26 AM, David Malone <dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Note, based on Miroslav's 2015 measurements, it seems that Google
> went for a piecewise linear smear, not the cosine based one mentioned
> in the link above:
>
>         https://mlichvar.fedorapeople.org/leap2015/google_smear.png

We used the cosine smear only for leap 34.  The smears for leaps 35
and 36 were linear
(https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/Got-a-second-A-leap-second-that-is-Be-ready-for-June-30th.html).

The linear smear deals with the leap by having only two frequency
changes (instead of an infinite number), so it's admirably simple.