[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20110209001914.GP1479 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>On Tue 2011-02-08T17:03:31 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:

>> NTP also does everything in UTC time

>

>No, NTP does not use UTC per se.

>The existing implementations make that specification misleading.

>Rather, NTP uses the internationally approved broadcast time scale.

>The implementations do not know the name of that time scale.

>Only the documentation knows that.


This is meaningless nonsense.

The transmitters which transmit "the internationally approved
broadcast time scales" don't know what they are transmitting
either, only their documentation does.

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