[LEAPSECS] UTC is dispredictable

[Ian Batten]

On 8 Mar 2011, at 07:23, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <716CB7F3-3A2E-422D-8923-0C03890449BB at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writ

> es:

> 

>> GPS time is pretty much available, and it is pretty much guaranteed

>> to remain available so long as there is a technological civilization

>> around [...]

> 

> .... and as long as it does not run foul of US foreign policy.


Do Galileo and Glonass use a timescale compatible with GPS, or something else?  If you told me Galileo divided the day into 100K parts and used a meridian that passed through Strasbourg I wouldn't be _totally_ surprised, but I'm assuming that some sort of reason prevailed...

ian