[LEAPSECS] leap seconds in the not so news

2022-12-04 Thread Steve Allen
today in leap second clickbait https://supplycloset.supplies/2022/12/04/scientists-killed-the-leap-second-your-birthday-could-be-next/ Scientists Killed The Leap Second. Your Birthday Could Be Next. -- Steve Allen WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260

Re: [LEAPSECS] King Charles

2022-12-04 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
   On 2022-12-04 17:01, Steve Allen wrote: On Sun 2022-12-04T16:30:01+ Tony Finch hath writ: So if you agree with Donald Sadler, has already GMT concluded. I do agree, and I also disagree, for Sadler was in large part responsible for another tacit change to GMT. Like others engaged

Re: [LEAPSECS] ITU-R WRC 2023 agenda

2022-12-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Tony Finch writes: > It is almost a year until the world radiocommunication conference, but to > my surprise there is already an agenda. (I am also amused that there is a > pre-meeting meeting in April) This is not unusual for technical organizations where governments votes, because

[LEAPSECS] ITU-R WRC 2023 agenda

2022-12-04 Thread Tony Finch
It is almost a year until the world radiocommunication conference, but to my surprise there is already an agenda. (I am also amused that there is a pre-meeting meeting in April) https://www.itu.int/wrc-23/preparations/preparations-for-wrc-23/ Anyway, I was expecting the agenda to include an item

Re: [LEAPSECS] King Charles

2022-12-04 Thread Steve Allen
On Sun 2022-12-04T16:30:01+ Tony Finch hath writ: > So if you agree with Donald Sadler, has already GMT concluded. I do agree, and I also disagree, for Sadler and was in large part responsible for another tacit change to GMT. Like others engaged in the present redefinitions, given his job

Re: [LEAPSECS] King Charles

2022-12-04 Thread Tony Finch
Steve Allen wrote: > It was King Charles II who oversaw the inception of GMT. > If King Charles III lives as long as his mother then > he will oversee the conclusion of GMT. George Wilkins wrote (in section 5.5.6.1):