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Hello,

I am a long time lurker who very much appreciates what I have learned from this list.

I saw the attached news clip in a current issue of the Slashdot newsletter.

The topic of leap seconds is occasionally discussed here, so I thought the 
clip might interest some members of the list.

V/R,

Tim


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| US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds                                        |
|   from the great-leap-forward dept.                                |
|   posted by kdawson on Monday September 08, @18:59 (Earth)         |
|   http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/08/2142238      |
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[0]@10u8 writes "For time scales to leap or not to leap [1]has been
[2]the question [3]here before. The ITU-R will be considering leap
seconds again in a few weeks. This week the USNO posted a [4]survey about
leap seconds by the US DoD. The issue has civil implications as well as
technical ones, and there is [0]a demonstrated way to respect the
history, remove leaps from navigation and POSIX time, yet keep the sun
overhead at noon."

Discuss this story at:
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/09/08/2142238

Links:
    0. http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html
    1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1929220&tid=14
    2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/30/135239&tid=103
    3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/20/0356214&tid=14
    4. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leap_second_poll.html




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