Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:32:15 GMT From: Demetrios N Matsakis <dnm@orion.usno.navy.mil> Report of the URSI Commission J Working Group on the Leap Second Just to put that report in its bureaucratic context: URSI is the International Union of Radio Science, a nongovernmental organization under the International Council for Science (ICSU). Commission J focuses on radio astronomy and remote sensing of celestial objects. Commission J set up the Working Group on the Leap Second in August of last year. Its job is to study the effect of halting leap second insertions into UTC, as proposed by McCarthy and Klepczynski. ICSU home page: http://www.icsu.org/ URSI home page: http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/Research/Projects/ursi/welcome.html Commission J info: http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/Research/Projects/ursi/Commissions.html Abstract of McCarthy & Klepczynski paper: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/reference/scie/s_t_41_50.htm#47