[LEAPSECS] BBC article

[Rob Seaman]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <BA780338-0DA7-4E93-B70C-E1A0A9D36CFD at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

> 

>>>>   Will require resources to modify existing ICDs and operational software

>>>>   Offers no benefits to NGA or GPS Operations

>>>> and he gave the cost of creating an ICD for GPS at about $100 million.

>> 

>> Meaning that GPS operations will be rather spectacularly un-fine under such

>> circumstances.

> 

> That rather pressumes that anybody can justify the cost of this pointless

> change in the first place.


You still aren't getting the point.  He was asserting that GPS operations - running their internal systems - is itself dependent on the current definition of UTC.