[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jul 2 09:21:32 UTC 2012


In message <4FF166E7.1060205 at alum.dartmouth.org>, David McGaw writes:

>There is already a time scale that is extensively used that has no leap 
>seconds - GPS.  Software could use that rather than UTC for its root time.

For all purposes GPS = TAI + constant, and it would be a lot easier
to get the rest of the world to accept rule/standards-making based
on TAI than GPS for political reasons.


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