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Re: Leap seconds in the news
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2026 Oct 14, 18:11 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2026 Oct 14, 18:11 -0400
In 2016, there was an international symposium on the Science of Time held in Cambridge, Ma. It attracted a wide range of scientists, including many who could be termed the Time Lords of Earth. These were the scientists who ran the various national laboratories where atomic clocks define time. I also signed up simply as an interested amateur, enjoying retirement. Required to give an institutional affiliation on the registration form, I put down Gallifrey Institute.
There were at least three papers that were specifically about leap seconds, as well as some warm debate of how to handle the digital rollover on networks. I was surprised and entertained by the conflicting opinions expressed.
Don Seltzer
On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 5:18 PM NavList Community <NavList@navlist.net> wrote:
Re: Leap seconds in the news
From: Jacquelin Hardy
Date: 2026 Oct 14, 11:53 -0700Are there any scientific people that want to keep the leap second ?
Do they want the reference Time to be based on the Earth movement and ignore a more accurate atomic time ?
