[LEAPSECS] no more listening to leap seconds?

[Brooks Harris]

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS
AND TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION
SERVICE
FISCAL YEAR 2018
BUDGET SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS

http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/FY18CBJ/FY%202018%20NIST-NTIS%20Cong%20Budget%20Request%20-%20508%20Compliant%20-%20FINAL.pdf

pp31 -

Time and Fundamental Measurement Dissemination (-$6.3 million and -36 
FTE) – NIST
will continue to maintain the U.S. time standard, and continue to 
advance the development of
best in the world atomic clocks as part of its core foundational work in 
this area, and
disseminate standard time through the internet. However, NIST will 
discontinue the
dissemination of the U.S. time and frequency via the NIST radio stations 
in Hawaii and
Ft. Collins, CO. These radio stations transmit signals that are used to 
synchronize consumer
electronic products like wall clocks, clock radios, and wristwatches, 
and may be used in other
applications like appliances, cameras, and irrigation controllers. NIST 
will also scale back
efforts to disseminate, and halt efforts to improve, and expand the 
atomic spectra database
that serves a wide range of users.

-Brooks


On 2018-08-10 04:25 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
> 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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