[LEAPSECS] no more listening to leap seconds?

[Tom Van Baak]

Hi Steve,

>From what I understand the same "threat" occurred in 2017 with the FY18 budget. In the end, the budget ended up greater even than what was asked. So no cuts were made. Who knows what will happen this time. Still, it's always a concern; for the staff, for the time service, for the users. The greater issue is to maintain a comprehensive national or global time dissemination system, with deep and multiple levels of accuracy, redundancy, security, and resiliency.

My guess is we will still be able to "hear" leap seconds -- just tune into Google and listen to the sound of innocent SI seconds being compressed or stretched to levels not seen since medieval timekeeping. The unpredictable clock arrest, which starts sometime around midnight, the prolonged shrieks of pain from the rack. The horror; the smell of leap seconds in the morning; Charlie don't leap.

/tvb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Allen" <sla at ucolick.org>
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 1:25 PM
Subject: [LEAPSECS] no more listening to leap seconds?


> This crossing over from time-nuts list, but it may mean that
> listening to leap seconds will become a thing of the past.
> If I understand this summary of the NIST budget request then
> radio stations WWV, and WWVH are set to be shut down.
> 
> https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-summary/fundamental-measurement-quantum-science-and
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