[LEAPSECS] leap seconds, newspapers, earth rotation

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2021-01-06T10:36:10-0800 Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> Does anyone know who started it? Is there a way to track it down?

I am pretty sure that it started when some reporter meandered over to
timeanddate.com and then started writing a followup.
They have had a running dashboard showing just how long each day
has been according to the IERS bureau predictions and keeping a
sports statistics page on how the earth is doing.
They ran a year end article looking over the stats
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-faster-rotation.html

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