Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

[Randy Fischer <randy.fischer () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote:

> Leap seconds are to align the artificial and very stable atomic timescale
> with the irregular and slowing rotation of the earth.

What do you want to use for a clock? It is convenient (if provincial) for
me to use the sky as the ultimate clock. Thus these adjustments.