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"

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