[LEAPSECS] Ghosts of Leap-seconds past and future

[Tony Finch]

On 28 Dec 2010, at 16:27, Michael Deckers <michael.deckers at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 

>   [b] This proposal does not only change technicalities like

>       the maximal difference |UTC - UT|, but it changes several

>       other things (more important things, in my opinion). For

>       instance, it removes the

>             immediate availability of UT

>       from the goals of UTC dissemination. Was anybody asked

>       about this? Do most of the experts agree?


Do practical systems get DUT1 from time broadcasts or from files downloaded from the Internet?

Tony.
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