[LEAPSECS] Leap second mess at NASA

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Thu Jun 2 02:32:54 EDT 2011


On Thu 2011-06-02T06:12:59 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/leapseconds_requirements.html

>

> In particular section 3.3


NASA has problems far beyond the scope of the current ITU-R effort,
and those should not cloud the issue of leap seconds.

That will need reconsideration at the point when somebody wins the
Nobel prize for demonstrating diurnal gravitational potential
variations in rates of chronometers on the geoid, or the point when
there is significant deployment of precision chronometers at locations
far removed from the geoid.

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