[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

[Tony Finch]

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

>

> http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/leapseconds_requirements.html

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> In particular section 3.3


It's interesting to look through to see what consideration they give to
handling future times. They have the luxury of being able to use a mission
timescale that can be decoupled from civil time so they can mostly specify
the difficult parts of the problem out of existence.

Tony.
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