Still no leap seconds

[pne]

Just got a copy of Bulletin C telling me there will be no leap second at the end of June 2004.

That makes over five years now without a leap second (the bulletin said that the difference between TAI and UTC has been constant at UTC-TAI = -32s since 1999-01-01T00:00:00), which surprises me a bit; I thought that leap seconds were introduced, on average, every two or three years.

I suppose the earth has been spinning a bit more regularly since then, or something.

Comments

Hmm

[whimemsz.livejournal.com]

Might it have something to do with this (http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-01-01-earth-spin_x.htm)?

Re: Hmm

[pne.livejournal.com]

That does look very relevant in this context. Thanks for the link!

And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's wondering about the "missing" leap secons; scientists are, too!