On Sat 2016-12-31T11:31:42 -0500, Steve Summit hath writ: > As Zefram already noted, Markus Kuhn specified CLOCK_UTC pretty clearly > at https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/posix-clocks.html -- and that was > back in 1998!
We have a lot of proposals for technical solutions. Klepczynski and Dennis McCarthy were the ones who raised the subject of leap seconds in 1999. During the 17 years of this discussion they have both retired, others who have championed the efforts in the ITU-R have retired or moved on or died, and this week the BIPM announced a vacancy for Director of Time to fill the position of E.F. Arias. It was a decade ago after one of the ITU-R meetings that William Klepczynski remarked "This is not a technical problem." With inaction in place until WRC 2023 it looks like everyone who was involved at the start of this leap second process will be gone before there is consensus about how it will end. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 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
