[LEAPSECS] Cost: getting rid of GMT & discontinuing leap seconds

[Greg Hennessy]

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> Can you point to one that's broadcast, in real time, around the planet

> like UTC is?  GPS is broadcast, but nobody does time stamping in GPS,

> and it lacks the force of law that UTC has.


What is the evidence that no one does time stamping in GPS?


> The NTP standard mandates UTC time.  NTP recovers UTC time from GPS

> time and broadcasts that.


I disagree that NTP recovers UTC from GPS and broadcasts that. While
some people do this, others do not. I work at a place that does not recover
UTC from GPS time to broadcast their NTP signal.