Schreiver AFB warns about leapsec

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:30:04 +0100

There is an interesting PowerPoint (sigh...) at Schriever AFB's GPS
support center:

https://www.schriever.af.mil/GpsSupportCenter/archive/advisory/Leap_Second_Event.ppt

Amongst the nuggets:

 Large error makes data unusable for some applications
 Eglin radar missed the leap second in 1998
 Thousands of observations had to be discarded
 Problem was also evident at Clear


 However, host system software receiving the 23:59:60 time hack may
 not know what to do. System dependent response.


They clearly know what the problem with leap seconds is :-)

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Received on Tue Dec 20 2005 - 00:40:59 PST

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