In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >
>>>>> Will require resources to modify existing ICDs and operational software >>>>> Offers no benefits to NGA or GPS Operations >>>>> and he gave the cost of creating an ICD for GPS at about $100 million. >>> >>> Meaning that GPS operations will be rather spectacularly un-fine under such >>> circumstances. >> >> That rather pressumes that anybody can justify the cost of this pointless >> change in the first place. > >You still aren't getting the point. He was asserting that GPS >operations - running their internal systems - is itself dependent >on the current definition of UTC. As I read that quote: "Changing the ICD to include UT1/DUT1 will cost a fortune and we don't need it for the GPS system" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
