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Re: What happened to the leap second?
From: UNK
Date: 2017 Jan 1, 12:26 -0800
From: UNK
Date: 2017 Jan 1, 12:26 -0800
Robin,
The time argument in the N.A. is UT1, not UTC. But DUT1 is broadcast. See N.A. p.354.
Best wishes for the New Year, which for some of us (how many, actually?) will presumably be 86399 seconds shorter than the past one.
Herbert