[LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

[michael.deckers]

    On 2017-01-30 21:36, Brooks Harris wrote:

> .................................... It seems to me this is where the UTC
> specifications are scattered over many documents and no one document makes it
> clear by itself, and this leaves room for misunderstanding.

    Actually, there is just one official document
    defining UTC (ITU-R Rec 460); plus of course
    the Bulletins C of the IERS. Everything else
    is interpretation and not necessarily correct.
    So I do not see a problem with scattered
    documents.

    What is missing quite a bit, as far as I can see,
    is a set of commonly accepted and applied "mises en
    pratique" for the leap seconds of UTC: documents
    that provide guidance for dealing with leap seconds
    in specific areas.

    Michael Deckers.


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