[LEAPSECS] The leap second, deep space and how we keep time -Brooks

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Tue Jan 27 21:18:31 EST 2015


On Tue 2015-01-27T21:41:17 +0000, Matsakis, Demetrios hath writ:
> Equally unfortunate is that 30 servers in the NTP pool inserted a
> leap second last Dec 31.

There is no action that the ITU-R can take which will change this kind
of misbehavior in these already-deployed systems.

Therefore this is irrelevant to the activities which will happen at
ITU-R WRC-15, and I don't think that misdirecting attention will help
the ITU-R decide what to do.

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