Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap seconds have a larger context than POSIX

2020-02-02 Thread Steve Allen
On Sun 2020-02-02T17:59:20+ Michael Deckers hath writ: > The maximum deviation |UTC - UT1| <= 0.9 s as stipulated in > 1974 by CCIR Rec. 460-1 has never been violated until now. That violates the agreement that the difference between UTC and UT1 would be encoded as part of the time broadcasts.

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap seconds have a larger context than POSIX

2020-02-02 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
   On 2020-02-01 23:59, Steve Allen wrote: In every instance where a document specified a maximum deviation that agreement was later violated.    The maximum deviation |UTC - UT1| <= 0.9 s as stipulated in    1974 by CCIR Rec. 460-1 has never been violated until now. In one case it was bro