[LEAPSECS] Ghosts of Leap-seconds past and future

[Michael Deckers]

    On 2010-12-28 18:33, Tony Finch asked:

>

>  Do practical systems get DUT1 from time broadcasts

 >  or from files downloaded from the Internet?

    I do not know -- but this is one of the questions I would
    expect to be answered when it is decided to which degree
    of precision UT is made available with UTC disseminations.

    With the current proposal for revision of ITU-R TF.460,
    UTC time signals are no longer intended to provide access
    to UT, so for the proposal, the question is moot.

    Michael Deckers.