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From: af%sei.ucl.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ("Alain FONTAINE ", Postmaster - NAD)
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Subject: Re: NTP and leap seconds
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Date: 5 Nov 90 12:49:58 GMT
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Big hi to all the nanoseconds watchers. I am quietly following this discussion
since quite a long time, only to regret that the holy scriptures are not
available to me (cannot print Postscript). Now finally I have seen a little
bit of it translated for poor ascii suckers. And it raises questions :

- the Julian Day Number of Jan 1, 1 is given as 1721426; both the program
  I use to compute such things and a few solid astronomical tables give
  1721424.

- the MJD of Jan 1, 1972 is given as 15021 ; on the other hand, both the
  program and the tables give 2415021 for the JDN (at noon), which means
  2415020.5 at 0h and, substracting 2400000.5, 15020 for the MJD.

- the values listed for the Dec 31 of various years are correct, given the
  fact that one speaks about 24h, and not 0h.

- but what about the various Jun 31 ?????                      /AF