• To: "'Liam Quin'" <liam@w...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: fundamental facets - inquiry from the XML SchemaWo rking Group
• From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:33:14 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam Quin [mailto:liam@w...] 

> Even the length of a day is not in fact entirely constant, 
> because of leap seconds, ...

Last time I checked, the decision to add or subtract leap seconds was made
by the Earth Rotation Service (ERS). Maybe it's just me, but I always
picture 10,000 ERS people running hell-bent-for-leather west along the
circumference of the equator. If one of them starts flagging, we get leap
seconds.

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