In message: <[email protected]>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> writes:
: In message <[email protected]>, "M. Warner Losh" 
writes
: :
: >In message: <[email protected]>
: >            Magnus Danielson <[email protected]> writes:
: >: Have any of you seen the reported problems?
: >
: >"These counts started at 0 roughly at midnight UTC 6 Jan 1980"
: >
: >What does "roughly" mean here in this context?
: 
: That the we have leap seconds.

But midnight UTC time on 6 Jan 1980 was exactly the same thing as
second 0 in GPS time.

Leap seconds, while an evil complication to UTC, don't enter the
synchronization point issue at all.  It wasn't even Jan 1 when the
leap second might have happened...  Hence my confusion...

Warner

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