On 27 September 2016 at 10:02, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > So, if everyone who is smearing is doing so piecewise-linear, it seems > there is a great opportunity for them to get together and choose a > consensus set of smear parameters. > > Amazon -12h +12h > Bloomberg -0 +2ks > Google -10h +10h > QTnet -"about 2 hours" +0 > UTC-SLS -1ks +0
Great summary! And yes, choosing a single approach to smearing would be highly desirable at this point. All of these are compatible with the Java Time-Scale [1] which favours UTC-SLS, but has as a basic requirement that it matches the de facto international civil time scale (broadcast UTC) at noon each day. The Java Time-Scale can also be changed if a standard smearing approach comes out. Stephen [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/Instant.html _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
