On 08/08/14 14:32, Patrice Scattolin wrote:
On 07/08/2014 4:52 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
It's only now we have a stable time source that we see the problem ... and that is perhaps because someone got the duration of a second wrong? Add a few more cycles to a second as they would have done 100 years ago by resetting the Greenwich clock :)
No, it's the length of the earth day that is changing over time as earth's rotation slows due to natural forces. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-in-the-jurassic-er...
Long term yes. Shorter term, say next 100 years, a small increase in period of a second would be a suitable alternative to the 'problem' of leap seconds ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk