Re: [LEAPSECS] 256-week / leap seconds / in the news

2021-07-24 Thread Steve Allen
On Sat 2021-07-24T18:50:50-0700 Tom Van Baak hath writ: > First, there really isn't a thing called a "0 leap second", but if you've > read the GPS ICD wrt leap seconds, you can see why it was posted. Second, it > happened once before, in 2003. "Modulo arithmetic class is tough" -- Barbie --

[LEAPSECS] 256-week / leap seconds / in the news

2021-07-24 Thread Tom Van Baak
In the news: "GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944776 First, there really isn't a thing called a "0 leap second", but if you've read the GPS ICD wrt leap seconds, you can see why it was posted. Second, it happened once before, in