[LEAPSECS] Future of UTC 2013

[Warner Losh]

On Feb 18, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Steve Allen wrote:


> In late 2011 we held a meeting on the Future of UTC in Exton Pennsylvania.

> The 400 pages of proceedings from the presentations at that meeting

> have been published on paper and in electronic form.

> 

> The sequel to that meeting is planned for late May of this year.

> 	Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth

>    A Colloquium Addressing a Continuous Time Standard to be held at

>    the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA May 29-31, 2013.

> 

> The subject of the meeting notes the ITU-R process regarding possible

> changes to radio broadcast time signals (and the associated internet

> equivalents).  Full details of the upcoming meeting are available via

> http://futureofutc.org/

> At that site are also links to the proceedings from the 2011 meeting.

> 

> The co-chairs are P. Kenneth Seidelmann, John Seago, Rob Seaman and me.

> The period for submitting abstracts remains open until the end of this

> week.  We invite contributions which address the issues described in

> the Call for Papers at the website.


Dang, looks like I missed the window to submit a paper on the difficulties of implementing leap seconds correctly on computing systems following current POSIX and other standards.

Warner