[LEAPSECS] What is GMT?

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2012-01-05T10:18:31 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:

> Why should this time be any different than the last time?  Leap

> seconds were rushed in, at the last minute with little coordination or

> cooperation in a manner that left hard feelings for years.


This is what the ITU-R is constituted to do --
fiat, whether or not there exists consensus.


> I think Steve Allan has a web page on his site that documents this

> from original docs that are now hard to find...


After diligent searching it is my impression that some of the
published documents can now only be found by going to Geneva and
pulling them out of the ITU-R library.

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