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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Steve Allen <sla () ucolick org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:41:09 -0700
On 2012 Jul 3, at 21:29, Paul Graydon wrote:
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat
Which is simply reiterating an older version of the regulatory document that specifies how UTC shall be done http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.460/en On paper it is a scheme that will work for 1000 years, but the original regulation contained no implementation details, no interoperability studies, no agency responsible for describing how implementations might communicate requirements, and that paper was locked behind a paywall for the first 40 years of its existence. All of that is too late to fix now. The events in January showed that the notion of simply abandoning leap seconds could not achieve consensus required for change. We are in Disney's Haunted Mansion with the spirit taunting us to find a way out. -- Steve Allen <sla () ucolick org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
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- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Chris Adams (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Paul Graydon (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steve Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Saku Ytti (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Marshall Eubanks (Jul 05)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Herbert (Jul 05)