[LEAPSECS] ISO TC 37

[Tony Finch]

Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:

>

> The GPS system, and the other GNSS, must know that in order to operate.

> The satellite tracking code, the VLBI code, the LLR code have all been

> written and operated in the presence of leap seconds.  The absence of

> leap seconds could compromise the infrastructure that supports GPS.


Yeah, 'cause GPS time is famously identical to UTC.

Tony.
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