[LEAPSECS] UTC going forward, one or two definitions? and what about NTP?

[Michael Spacefalcon]

Tim Shepard <shep at alum.mit.edu> wrote:


> If ITU-R decides that UTC will no longer have any leap seconds

> inserted, but some people have systems that currently get their mean

> solar time via NTP, it will be very tempting for them to continue to

> run one or more NTP servers that distribute time via NTP that

> continues to track mean solar time (and network such NTP servers

> together with others in the same situation).


Yes, that is *precisely* what I'm going to do.


> and some other NTP servers continuing to provide time that

> follows the old definition of UTC (as best as the operators of such

> servers can achieve this---someone will have to decide when to insert

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> leap seconds).


Does Daniel Gambis have a home PC?  And a Gmail account maybe?

I will implement EVERY leap second which I receive from Mr. Gambis, in
direct disobedience to any orders from the ITU to not do so, and
regardless of whether the LS is announced through the current
"official" channel or through a personal email account.

By a show of hands, who else on this list is with me?

SF