[LEAPSECS] W1K GPS rollover for some time servers

[Rob Seaman]

On May 5, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> It is time to look at other solutions to the synchronization problem that can be implemented correctly.

By all means.  That is not what the ITU has been doing.  Redefining UTC to cease leap seconds is the opposite of a solution.

> The only people that care are people that point things at the sky.

Aerospace also points things downward for innumerable purposes.  Navigation deals with tangential motions on the surface, in the air and at sea.  Pointing is not the only verb; see http://futureofutc.org for presentations and preprints touching on other areas.

> it is hard to get traction to find some common ground.

Astronomers among others are power users of both solar time and atomic time.  The common ground is to recognize that these are indeed two different things.  Correct implementations cannot flow from faulty conceptual models.

Rob