[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20110603015651.GA5300 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>On Thu 2011-06-02T23:01:30 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:



>They don't need PhD to get a system with no leap seconds, all they

>need is a devil-may-care attitude about strict compliance with POSIX

>or conformance to ITU-R recommendations.  With that they can buy

>a Meinberg or Symmetricom NTP server, configure it to produce GPS

>time instead of UTC, and live with being 15 seconds fast.


We've been down this way before Rob, and you never remember how you
are going to get all the customers and politcians to write this into
their requirements and laws instead of UTC.

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