Re: [Pool] Redefinition of UTC (Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation)

2011-07-14 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Anthony On 13.07.2011 19:17, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: I was asking myself if this could have any impact for ntpd which use a GPS receiver as time source. You wouldn't have to keep updating the leapseconds file, that's all. This is the main advantage I also see and this would make

Re: [Pool] Redefinition of UTC (Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation)

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
I was asking myself if this could have any impact for ntpd which use a GPS receiver as time source. You wouldn't have to keep updating the leapseconds file, that's all. As GPS satellite are geostationary, Except for the FAA's WAAS, this is not true; the GPS satellites are all in medium

Re: [Pool] Redefinition of UTC (Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation)

2011-07-13 Thread Hal Murray
I do not know, if this is the right place to ask/report this. But I think, that some knowledgeable people are reading this mailing list. .. The best place to discuss this is probably the leapseconds list at: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs There has been a lot of

Re: [Pool] Redefinition of UTC (Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation)

2011-07-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:38, Hal Murray wrote: Leap seconds works terribly in practice -- at least according to the pool system monitoring during the last one. (And that's not even counting the obvious problem of having two seconds with the same timestamp!).