[LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

[Tony Finch]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> wrote:
> >
> > Of course, as we've been discussing, the specifications
> > leave room for interpretation.
>
> Correct. They don't even talk about an offset. They just say that a
> leap second is counted positiviely 58, 59, 60, 00 and negatively 58,
> 00. Nothing more.

TF.460-6 requires TAI-UTC to be disseminated but doesn't specify it in
detail.

http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.460-6-200202-I/en

Tony.
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