[LEAPSECS] Future Leap Seconds

[Warner Losh]

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue 2015-01-27T22:47:48 -0500, Tim Shepard hath writ:
>> Why does such a system need to know what time it is UTC?
> 
> For some devices I would expect it is because of statutory or
> regulatory requirements which require that it should do so.
> 
> Not everyone feels able to take the course of GPS, Galileo, IEEE 1588,
> BeiDou, and IRNSS and 'Just Say No' to UTC.

In our case, it was contractual language that was non-negotiable. There
was one time, and it was UTC and that’s what was externally visible,
end of discussion. They didn’t care if this made some other contractual
requirements hard: time was UTC and that’s that.

Warner