Steve Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The GPS system, and the other GNSS, must know that in order to operate.
> The satellite tracking code, the VLBI code, the LLR code have all been
> written and operated in the presence of leap seconds.  The absence of
> leap seconds could compromise the infrastructure that supports GPS.

Yeah, 'cause GPS time is famously identical to UTC.

Tony.
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occasionally very poor.
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