[LEAPSECS] no more listening to leap seconds?

Brooks Harris brooks at edlmax.com
Fri Aug 10 23:33:12 EDT 2018


On 2018-08-10 05:55 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> >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.
Shutting them down doesn't seem wise to me. Be a shame if they shut WWV 
before it's 100th anniversary:

NIST Radio Station WWV 100-year Anniversary
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/10/nist-radio-station-wwv-100-year-anniversary

countdown timer until Radio Station WWV's 100 year Anniversary
http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i66ydhrd/n75/cf111/cm0/cu5/ct3/cs0/ca0/co1/cr0/ss0/cac000/cpc000/pc66c/tc66c/fs400/szw1320/szh556/tatTime%20Until%20WWV%20100th%20Anniversary%3A/tac000/tptWe%20made%20it%20WWV%20is%20100%20years%20old/tpc000/iso2019-10-01T00:00:00

-Brooks


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