[LEAPSECS] is leap smear legal in Germany?

[Steve Allen]

The story about the German time broadcasts of DCF77 is in Bulletin
Horaire.  The story about the German decision that the old rubber
second UTC form of coordination was not legal after CGPM adopted
the cesium second is in the proceedings of the CCDS, and it is
also indicated in several popular articles written by H.M. Smith.

In his memoire about history of Greenwich D.H.  Sadler told the story
of a CCDS preparatory meeting where Andre Danjon was too sick, and the
interim president was one of the cesium gang.  Sadler wrote that the
interim took a straw vote which turned out against cesium, then
announced when the meeting would end so that folks could make travel
arrangements home, then extended the meeting and took the final vote
after some folks had left.  The remaining votes came out in favor
of cesium, Sadler objected to the CIPM, and the CIPM invalidated
the vote and meeting and excluded both Sadler and the interim
president from the next meeting.

Sadler makes it clear that there were trolls among the time community
in the 1960s.  The Bulletin Horaire listings of two different parties
in charge of DCF77 transmissions hint that there were similar tensions
of purpose within Germany.  The ITU-R library probably has reports
from the CCIR working party meetings during 1968 and 1969 which would
give more clues about the official stances of various nations.

It would be interesting to dig further into the power struggle in
Germany between the Hydrographic signals and the Metrological signals,
and to see who and how it was argued that rubber seconds were no
longer legal in Germany.  This might reveal hints about whether the
crisis in the CCIR that led to urgent creation of leap seconds was
triggered by Gerhard Becker or someone else at PTB acting alone, or
whether the cesium gang had talked through and decided that Germany
was the expedient place to trigger the crisis.

But now I am trolling and asking:
Given that rubber seconds are illegal in Germany, is it legal to
use Google/Amazon NTP servers that provide smeared leap seconds?

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