23 Jul
2021
23 Jul
'21
5:41 p.m.
What’s interesting is that the Earth is undergoing an odd span of time during which it has been spinning a bit faster instead of slowing down. If this keeps up, not only will it be a while until we see another leap second, but in a few years we might experience the first negative leap second, where a second is dropped from the end of the last minute just before 00:00 UTC.
Per IERS, Bulletin C 62 (2021-07-05) https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.62
?and forwarded below.
A patch updating leap-seconds.list from NIST is attached, and is installed in the development repository.
-- Tim Parenti