Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A meeting in progress

2013-09-11 Thread mc235960
Le 11 sept. 2013 à 07:40, Steve Allen a écrit : > The meeting of ITU-R WP7A is now in progress. > The contributions > http://www.itu.int/md/R12-WP7A-C/en > include documents on the subject of UTC from > ITU-T SG15, France, USA, Germany, Russia and UK > I wish good luck to all the delegations. Me

[LEAPSECS] WP7A meeting in progress

2013-09-10 Thread Steve Allen
The meeting of ITU-R WP7A is now in progress. The contributions http://www.itu.int/md/R12-WP7A-C/en include documents on the subject of UTC from ITU-T SG15, France, USA, Germany, Russia and UK I wish good luck to all the delegations. -- Steve Allen WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/

[LEAPSECS] WP7A is next week in Geneva

2013-04-03 Thread Steve Allen
Next week's meeting looks more interesting about the leap second than we have seen in a while. Clearly the admonition from on high has prompted some ITU-R adminstrations to produce words. http://www.itu.int/md/R12-WP7A-C/en Count them, two submissions from BIPM, one from Canda, and from the UK a

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <037ba1cd-da84-4ae9-8623-657f4cf8e...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >3) My own point of view focuses on the requirements for "wall >clocks". Civil timekeeping has (heretofore) been mean solar time >[...] You mean "has been within a couple of hours of mean solar time" ? >4) The IT

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Zefram wrote: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Orbit_times.png Cool, thanks for that and the interesting details in your other post. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ WIGHT PORTLAND PLYMOUTH: VARIABLE BACKING SOUTHEAST 3 OR 4, OCCASIONALLY

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Zefram
I wrote: >Tony Finch wrote: >> The local atomic clocks on the Moon or Mars will not run at the >>same rate as a time signal transmitted from the Earth. > >More due to being at high altitude than due to relative motion, I believe. I've just found this relevant graph on Wikipedia: http://up

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Rob Seaman
Tony Finch wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: To synchronize two clocks (Earth and Lunar in this case), you can adjust the rates on one end or the other, or you can reset the zero point of one or the other on some sort of schedule. Additionally, if the differential rates continu

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Zefram
Tony Finch wrote: > The local atomic clocks on the Moon or Mars will not run at the >same rate as a time signal transmitted from the Earth. More due to being at high altitude than due to relative motion, I believe. If you're concerned about local interval time, with a sufficiently heavy em

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > > To synchronize two clocks (Earth and Lunar in this case), you can adjust > the rates on one end or the other, or you can reset the zero point of > one or the other on some sort of schedule. Additionally, if the > differential rates continue to vary, then

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-19 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:34 AM, John Cowan wrote: Rob Seaman scripsit: One supposes the lunar synodic period would be divided into 30 parts. *One* may suppose it, but others have not, such as Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis, an actual (though fictional) resident of Luna, describing the timescal

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-19 Thread John Cowan
Rob Seaman scripsit: > One supposes the lunar synodic period would be divided into 30 parts. *One* may suppose it, but others have not, such as Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis, an actual (though fictional) resident of Luna, describing the timescale discussions of the "Ad-Hoc Congress for Organization

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-19 Thread Pete Forman
At 2008-12-18 23:50 -0700, Rob Seaman wrote: GPS is a very popular brand name that could certainly be used as a component of a successful campaign to market a new concept of civil timekeeping. Please, no. I've had to spend a lot of time explaining the difference between GPS time as used in the

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:45 PM, John Cowan wrote: Ah, but will Lunar civil time be mean solar time on Luna? For many purposes, yes. The Apollo missions were planned to occur in daylight, for instance. For other purposes, the factor of ~30 contrast between the lunar day and the innate human

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Zefram wrote: I think the more fundamental issue is that we will, any way round, need data that relates the two flavours of time. A single clock reading can't give both types of time in the absence of such knowledge. ...and wouldn't a description of how these

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread John Cowan
Rob Seaman scripsit: > >Why should mumans on Mars or the Moon, care about the rotation of > >a rock they are not on when they want to time events ? > > Well, because they likely want to communicate with their families back > on Earth, I suppose, but again you are making my point. What are you

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Zefram
Rob Seaman wrote: >historians and long term planners (and yes, some folks do think >thousands of years into the past and the future) need a coherent >system for tracking clock relationships between countries and centuries? Historians have to relate whatever time scale was historically in use t

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <18762.53127.165662.23...@gromit.timing.com> John Hein writes: : > Solutions for "applications" can and should rely on properly designed : > systems : : Indeed. And relying on a system whereby you receive six months notice : is one of the problems with the current sys

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Zefram
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >A timescale which takes earth rotation into account should be >called "Terrestial Time Coordinated" (TTC ?) and the timescale >that takes into account the rotation of Mars should be MTC. The name "MTC" has already been used to refer, not to the Martian equivalent of UTC,

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 18, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Before the first timezone ever shifts to compensate for the abandoned leapseconds, that number is almost certain to have increased to at least two and likely more irregular rocks. Scroll back the the very beginning of the archives. I had s

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread John Hein
Rob Seaman wrote at 14:50 -0700 on Dec 18, 2008: > So, the assertion is that an imaginary requirement that technology > worldwide must remain synchronized to the fractional second level at > all times in all places forever and ever - that this takes precedence > over the actual (if hereto

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Hennessy
Rob Seaman wrote: I should make the aside that these debates seem to pop up "like clockwork" every year around this time :-) Probably because leapseconds tend to be around this time. :) ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pai

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <5a9295bc-1704-489c-b4b1-2942c0414...@noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes: >We live on a planet with charmingly irregular motions. Attempting to >ignore this fact will inevitably fail, perhaps spectacularly. Before the first timezone ever shifts to compensate for the abandoned leapseconds,

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
I should make the aside that these debates seem to pop up "like clockwork" every year around this time :-) Regardless of everyone's entrenched positions, a most Happy New Year! On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, John Cowan wrote: I'm pointing out that we are *already* doing that when establishing

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Matsakis, Demetrios wrote: Both sides on this mailing list could use this example to promote their case. Opponents to a change would say that perfectly fine solutions exist to handle leap seconds, while advocates would say that engineering solutions naturally

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
So, the assertion is that an imaginary requirement that technology worldwide must remain synchronized to the fractional second level at all times in all places forever and ever - that this takes precedence over the actual (if heretofore largely unstated) requirement that historians and long

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread John Cowan
Rob Seaman scripsit: > And how precisely is this making your point? In the absence of a > coherent zoneinfo scheme like Steve Allen's, you are asserting that > the (literally) rock solid basis of mean solar time anchored deep in > the Earth, Nothing anyone can do will change the value of m

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:15 AM, John Cowan wrote: The median number of changes over the century-give-or-take of standard time (exactly when standard time begins depends on the jurisdiction) is 3, minimum 1, maximum 17 (!), mean 3.94, standard deviation 2.88. Even if we ignore all changes before the

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Matsakis, Demetrios
riginal Message- From: Richard B. Langley [mailto:l...@unb.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:14 PM To: Leap Second Discussion List; Matsakis, Demetrios Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status Not just for navigation. The geodetic community time-tags GPS measurements with GPS (System) Tim

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread John Hein
John Cowan wrote at 11:15 -0500 on Dec 18, 2008: > Rob Seaman scripsit: > > Because the past remains with us, and the future requires planning. In addition to what John Cowan said, I'd also point out that planning is the one of the biggest issues with leap seconds. In terms of planning for t

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Steve Allen
On Thu 2008-12-18T10:28:38 -0700, M. Warner Losh hath writ: > Although the epic of LORAN-C TOC is indeed 1958, LORAN-C TOC followed > the 'rubber seconds' from 1958 until 1972 when leap seconds were > introduced. After that, its course is parallel to UTC without further > leap seconds. And if I h

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Richard B. Langley
t; > -Original Message- > From: leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com > [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Greg Hennessy > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:53 AM > To: Leap Second Discussion List > Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status > > >

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <10573.1229588...@critter.freebsd.dk> "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: : In message <20081218030954.ga26...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: : : >http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html : : I belive your LORAN-C TOC is wrong, that should be 01-01-1958 00:00:00 UTC I

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Matsakis, Demetrios
CD-GPS-202, which is written in style I would describe as "for engineers". -Original Message- From: leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Greg Hennessy Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:53 AM To: Leap Second Discussion List Su

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread John Cowan
Rob Seaman scripsit: > Because the past remains with us, and the future requires planning. What the past tells us is that prediction is very difficult, *especially* about the future. At sea, where no one cares much, the timezone mappings have remained stable; on land, it's a different story,

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Seaman
Not a very impressive article, whatever one's point of view. -- On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:38 AM, Markus Kuhn wrote: Steve Allen wrote on 2008-12-16 18:52 UTC: On Tue 2008-12-16T16:07:30 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subc

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Hennessy
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026875.400-calls-to-scrap-the-leap-second-grow.html The report has a sentence "GPS time is not a reference, it is simply an internal time for GPS system synchronization, as GLONASS time is and Galileo time will be." Is what it takes to be a reference

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-18 Thread Markus Kuhn
Steve Allen wrote on 2008-12-16 18:52 UTC: > On Tue 2008-12-16T16:07:30 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > > http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf > > I am aware that he provided it to journalists from New Scientist last week.

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20081218030954.ga26...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html I belive your LORAN-C TOC is wrong, that should be 01-01-1958 00:00:00 UTC -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 9

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-17 Thread Steve Allen
On Wed 2008-12-17T19:23:16 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: > The historical trend > (http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/ancient.png ) won't just vanish with > the actions of the ITU, it will pop up again somewhere else. I appreciate the link to the LOD plot, and I have faith in the readership of

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Seaman
Because the past remains with us, and the future requires planning. By discarding any stationary mapping from local clocks (and calendar) to an underlying "universal" timescale, historical provenance and long range planning acquire a spatially dependent error term that grows with time. Th

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-17 Thread John Cowan
Rob Seaman scripsit: > For instance, I happen to think your notion about perpetually > revolving the time zone offsets around the planet under completely > local authority is spectacularly unworkable. Why are such changes in timezone unworkable, provided they don't happen too often? The me

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Steve Allen wrote: On Tue 2008-12-16T16:07:30 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf That was before the meeting in Geneva, before China objected. Ah! Thanks

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status and Re: clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Seaman
On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf Thanks for posting this - extremely helpful! On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Please discontinue use of your "d

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Matsakis, Demetrios
ginal Message- From: leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:33 PM To: Leap Second Discussion List Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status In message <5be518100a3b5041bfadc26754c

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Allen
On Tue 2008-12-16T16:07:30 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf That was before the meeting in Geneva, before China objected. It is worth pointing out that during this CGSIC meeting Thomas Ba

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Pete Forman
At 2008-12-16 17:40 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <7.0.1.0.2.20081216170607.04bc2...@gatwick.westerngeco.slb.com>, Pete Forman writes: >This implies to me that some latter day Pope Gregory will decide that >he is fed up with the inaccuracy of his sundial and slap on an >intercalat

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <7.0.1.0.2.20081216170607.04bc2...@gatwick.westerngeco.slb.com>, Pete Forman writes: >This implies to me that some latter day Pope Gregory will decide that >he is fed up with the inaccuracy of his sundial and slap on an >intercalation. Why is that sort of consequence not mentioned in

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Pete Forman
At 2008-12-16 16:07 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf I cannot get to that web site but the words are in Google's cache. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meeting

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <5be518100a3b5041bfadc26754c50353b2c...@echoex.timenet.usno.navy.mil>, "Matsakis, Demetrios" writes: >On the basis of six years of non-expression of interest from their >constituency, the URSI secretariat made a unanimous decision to not >respond to the ITU-R's Special Rapporteur Grou

Re: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Matsakis, Demetrios
--Original Message- From: leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com [mailto:leapsecs-boun...@leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:08 AM To: Leap Second Discussion List Subject: [LEAPSECS] WP7A status http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/

[LEAPSECS] WP7A status

2008-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20Subcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can ad

[LEAPSECS] WP7A

2008-03-25 Thread Steve Allen
It's less than a week until WP7A meets, and the list of contributions regarding UTC looks interesting http://www.itu.int/md/R07-WP7A-C/en France is in there twice! -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick ObservatoryNatural Sciences II, Room