[LEAPSECS] stuff

[Rob Seaman]

I've been reminded of this contribution to the 2003 Torino meeting:

	http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/torino/seago.pdf

Don't know where it falls on the stuff-o-meter, but at 16 pages and with 33 references it seems "actual" enough.

This is a simulated email, however.

Rob
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On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:


> "Actual stuff"?  There's a whole other sermon…

> 

> These are tools for characterizing an "actual effect" in the "actual sky" that will affect "actual operations" of the Air Force Space Command.

> 

> The proceedings are being finalized and should be available next week.  In the mean time feel free to read through the other presentations at:

> 

> 	http://futureofutc.org/

> 

> Extra credit if you can locate the sundial on Mars.

> 

> Rob

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> On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Tony Finch wrote:

> 

>> Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

>>> 

>>>> Can you (or another participant) give me some concrete examples of

>>>> stuff that needs leap seconds and don't already have well established

>>>> mechanisms for adjusting the time output from their GPS or other time

>>>> keeping equipment appropriately?

>>> 

>>> See http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/program/presentations/AAS_11-674_Storz.pptx.pdf

>> 

>> That describes simulations, not actual stuff.