Re: [LEAPSECS] Defining our terms (was Re: [LEAPSECS] Longer leap second notice)

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:16:59 +0100

In message <6366.1136621632_at_critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>In message <20060107000721.GB22872_at_ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>>On Sat 2006-01-07T00:32:44 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>


>>At the beginning of 1984 and at the beginning of 2003 the branches of
>>the IERS responsible for UT1 followed new IAU recommendations and
>>changed the rules by which UT1 is calculated. The current version
>>of UT1 has a notably different flavor and long-term purpose than
>>the version of UT1 which was in place when UTC with leap seconds
>>was originally defined by the CCIR.
>

      doesn't
         v
>But that matter, because ITU-R (successor of CCIR) defined Leap(time)
>in terms of UT1 without specifying how UT1 was arrived at.


oops...

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