[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Dennis Ferguson]

On 10 Jan, 2012, at 14:02 , Rob Seaman wrote:


> Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> 

>> By the time leap seconds stop you should be able to get UT1 directly, with high precision, from your satellite navigation receiver

> 

> I'll borrow one of these from Ian:

> 

> [Citation Needed]


For GPS fetch this

    http://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/IS-GPS-200E.pdf

and search for occurrences of "UT1".

I'm pretty sure I've seen powerpoint suggesting the two other new satellite
navigation systems will be supplying similar data as well, though I've not
dug through their technical specifications to find out how they'll
present it.

Dennis Ferguson