As pointed out by the IEEE reporter in http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/the-eight-year-leap-second-delay-might-not-be-as-bad-as-it-seems
The Provisional Final Acts of WRC-15 are visible at http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/act/R-ACT-WRC.11-2015-PDF-E.pdf These include => MOD to Radio Regulation 1.14 Page 1 has the new text on the meaning of Coordinated Universal Time. => MOD to Radio Regulation 2.5 Page 2 has the new text on the meaning of calendar dates. => Resolution COM5/1 (WRC-15) Definition of time scale and dissemination of time signals via radiocommunication systems Starting on page 357 is three pages of bureaucratese saying that UTC remains equivalent to mean solar time or GMT and shall stay that way until 2023. In the mean time there should be more studies involving the alphabet soup of agencies IMO, ICAO, CGPM, CIPM, BIPM, IERS, IUGG, URSI, ISO, WMO and IAU. That list of agencies is notable in that none of those are involved in defining standards for computing systems. That is incongruent with repeated assertions that the suppression of the leap second is needed for the sake of computing systems. It remains unclear how the ITU-R can move toward a resolution of this issue. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
