Re: NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2006

Tell people why a 86 400 leap second correction is needed every 4 years
and what happens to that quarter day each year in respect to the annual
orbit of the Earth.I am sure they would like to know how you fit the
Earth's orbital motion into a system of 3 years of 365 days and 1 year
of 366 days,the same reference these jokers use to fuss about a leap
second.

Humanity should not have to rely on one individual at a keyboard making
an effort to turn back from this 'leap second' junk insofar as the
pseudo-authorative 'iers' highlights the extreme obstacles facing
humanity in coming to understand how the Earth's axial and orbital
motions and orientations create global climate norms and why the
temperature signatures oscillating with the change in orbital
orientation can be discerned from temperature signatures from other
origins such as human activity or terrestial events -

http://www.climateprediction.net/images/sci_images/annual.gif

All the pretension behind the leap second adjustment is fine as long
as at least some people recognise that it is little more than
self-congratulation using the wrong astronomical working principles for
axial rotation,should the iers care to review how the actual principles
which correlate clock time with the Earth's axial motion,right back to
its pre-Copernican correlation between naturally observed day and
equable 24 hour day then nobody will be happier than I.





Sam Wormley wrote:
INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)

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Paris, 19 July 2006


Bulletin C 32

To authorities responsible
for the measurement and
distribution of time



INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI


NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2006.
The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
International Atomic Time TAI is :

from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -33 s

Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
will be no time step at the next possible date.


Daniel GAMBIS
Director
Earth Orientation Center of IERS
Observatoire de Paris, France

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