Leap Seconds

The thread discussing the defintion of midnight 00:00:00 or 24:00:00 had
me wondering when are we going to get another leap second. We have been
holding at 32 (see USNO "leap seconds") for around 5 years now and that is
nearly double the time that we have in between them since we started
keeping track of them over 30 years ago.

Any thoughts?

Eric

(Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
The thread discussing the defintion of midnight 00:00:00 or 24:00:00 had
me wondering when are we going to get another leap second. We have been
holding at 32 (see USNO "leap seconds") for around 5 years now and that is
nearly double the time that we have in between them since we started
keeping track of them over 30 years ago.

Any thoughts?

Eric

The problem has been the Earth's rotation has been speeding up,
big mystery!
Maybe should give up UTC, it may happen!

Try these sites:

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/

http://iraf.noao.edu/~seaman/leap/

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/

Al Jackson ) wrote:
: (Eric Chomko) wrote in message ...
: The thread discussing the defintion of midnight 00:00:00 or 24:00:00 had
: me wondering when are we going to get another leap second. We have been
: holding at 32 (see USNO "leap seconds") for around 5 years now and that is
: nearly double the time that we have in between them since we started
: keeping track of them over 30 years ago.
:
: Any thoughts?
:
: Eric

: The problem has been the Earth's rotation has been speeding up,
: big mystery!
: Maybe should give up UTC, it may happen!

: Try these sites:

: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/

: http://iraf.noao.edu/~seaman/leap/

: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/


Thanks for the links they are very helpful.

Eric