Some vendors gps receivers cannot handle leapseconds properly, so they may be pushing to fix the problem this way ;)
Sent From iPhone On Jul 14, 2011, at 15:51, "iovane\@inwind\.it" <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that this matter has not yet > been discussed among time-nuts: > http://futureofutc.org > From the above website: > A conclusive proposal to fundamentally redefine UTC is scheduled for a vote > by the Radiocommunications Assembly of the ITU-R in January, 2012. The > proposal will halt the contribution of so-called leap seconds to UTC after > 2017, and will also terminate the requirement that time services transmit the > difference between UT1 and UTC. If approved, UTC would no longer be useful as > a type of Universal Time for most technical applications. > Antonio I8IOV > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
