[LEAPSECS] Bloomberg announced its smear

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 27 September 2016 at 10:02, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> So, if everyone who is smearing is doing so piecewise-linear, it seems
> there is a great opportunity for them to get together and choose a
> consensus set of smear parameters.
>
> Amazon    -12h +12h
> Bloomberg -0   +2ks
> Google    -10h +10h
> QTnet -"about 2 hours" +0
> UTC-SLS   -1ks +0

Great summary! And yes, choosing a single approach to smearing would
be highly desirable at this point.

All of these are compatible with the Java Time-Scale [1] which favours
UTC-SLS, but has as a basic requirement that it matches the de facto
international civil time scale (broadcast UTC) at noon each day. The
Java Time-Scale can also be changed if a standard smearing approach
comes out.

Stephen

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/Instant.html