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 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
