Steve, The latest ITU document prolongs the status quo. Required reading for folks wanting to weigh in on this isse is Nelson, R.A., et all. The leap second: its history and possible future. Metrologia, 2001, 38, 509-529.
Dave Steve Allen wrote: >On May 6, 4:33 pm, John Hasler <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>Leap secondscould be handled the same way DST is. You just structure your >>zonefile such that the 15 seconds becomes 16 after the effective date of >>the leap second. >> >> > >If this proves tractable it would be an invaluable example for the >member delegations to ITU-R WP7A as they discuss how to overcome the >political impasse which has prevented progress toward deciding the >future of the broadcast time scale. It might prompt one of the member >nations to make a formal proposal akin to the notions I have outlined >http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html >http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html >It is particularly relevant in the UK where there is an upcoming >mandate for all-digital radio transmissions. After that transition >the BBC's six pips will always be buffered, so it will not be possible >to use them to set a timepiece manually. The only reliable means for >manual setting would become to listen to shortwave time signals. > >_______________________________________________ >questions mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
