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(2017) The science of time 2016, Dordrecht, Springer.

How to talk to the public about the leap second?

the experience of the IERS central bureau

Wolfgang R. Dick

pp. 277-286

Background: Explaining the difference between the slow increase of the length of day (LOD) with time on the one hand and the rather large frequency of leap seconds on the other hand

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_32

Full citation:

Dick, W. R. (2017)., How to talk to the public about the leap second?: the experience of the IERS central bureau, in E. Felicitas arias, L. Combrinck, P. Gabor & C. Hohenkerk (eds.), The science of time 2016, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 277-286.

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