Difficulties of Preserving the Leap Second
Astrophysics
2008-09-01 v2 Geophysics
Abstract
We examine the possibility to extend leap second extrapolation for a near future based on some periodic terms in the Earth's rotation changes. The IERS data, covering the interval from 1962.15 to 2006.95, are analyzed. The difference is extrapolated till to 2035 and compared with the IERS extrapolated values to the 2012. It can be seen that for the interval from 2006 to 2024 only 1 leap seconds (negative) will be operated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.3612,
title = {Difficulties of Preserving the Leap Second},
author = {S. Segan and B. Surlan and S. Vidojevic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3612},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Added abstract in serbian (cyrilic); The paper is submited in Serbian Astronomical Journal; 5 pages, 4 figs