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Old December 31st 07, 08:49 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
dxAce dxAce is offline
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Default Why no Leap Second lately?



David wrote:

dxAce wrote:

David wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second


Why? Because it is not yet necessary.


We're off the same as we were in 1999 and more than we were in 1994.
The last correction was plus 300 ms; obviously someone thinks that's an
acceptable deviation.


Obviously.