Re: [LEAPSECS] BeiDou Numbering Presents Leap-Second Issue

2015-03-04 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-03-04 07:28 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote: |http://gpsworld.com/beidou-numbering-presents-leap-second-issue/ Ok, but if engineers don't even get enough time from the business people to read manuals before they code the software then all bets are

[LEAPSECS] a Japanese leap smear?

2015-03-04 Thread Steve Allen
It looks like Kyushu Telecommunication network is considering its own version of the leap smear http://www.slideshare.net/apnic/the-leap-second-is-coming-by-tomonori-takada-apricot-2015 -- Steve Allen s...@ucolick.orgWGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB

Re: [LEAPSECS] epoch of TAI, and TAI vis a vis GPS

2015-03-04 Thread Steve Allen
On Wed 2015-03-04T07:42:46 +, michael.deckers via LEAPSECS hath writ: On 2015-03-04 02:23, Steve Allen wrote on the Getting meaninglessly pedantic, in Survey Review v19 #143 p7 (1967) A.R. Robins had been talking with Sadler and Smith and with that information in hand he wrote that

Re: [LEAPSECS] My FOSDEM slides

2015-03-04 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-03-04 02:12 AM, michael.deckers via LEAPSECS wrote: On 2015-03-03 21:05, Martin Burnicki wrote about negative leap seconds: In the 7 year interval where no leap second was required/scheduled I heard several people saying we might have needed a negative leap second.

Re: [LEAPSECS] BeiDou Numbering Presents Leap-Second Issue

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Tom Van Baak t...@leapsecond.com wrote: |http://gpsworld.com/beidou-numbering-presents-leap-second-issue/ Ok, but if engineers don't even get enough time from the business people to read manuals before they code the software then all bets are off. From a coders point of view 0-6 seems to be

Re: [LEAPSECS] My FOSDEM slides

2015-03-04 Thread Joseph Gwinn
On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:56:42 +0100, Martin Burnicki wrote: Joseph Gwinn wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:09:01 +0100, Martin Burnicki wrote: Hi folks, I've been asked off list to make the slides of my presentation at FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels available and post the download link on this list.

Re: [LEAPSECS] My FOSDEM slides

2015-03-04 Thread Steve Allen
On Wed 2015-03-04T08:54:00 -0500, Joseph Gwinn hath writ: On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:09:01 +0100, Martin Burnicki wrote: I think I'll give it a try soon. I'd expect that a negative leap second might work if an appropriate announcement is received from a refclock or upstream NTP server, but it