Re: [LEAPSECS] [Non-DoD Source] D.H. Sadler in 1954

2018-03-16 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Matsakis, Demetrios N CIV NAVOBSY, N3TS < demetrios.matsa...@navy.mil> wrote: > I was surprised to find phrases in the Lick web pages: "CCIR ignored the > advice that astronomers " and "squelched astronomers who insisted that leap > seconds would cause trouble".

Re: [LEAPSECS] current / future state of UT1 access?

2018-03-16 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2018-03-16 03:41 PM, Brooks Harris wrote: On 2018-03-16 01:18 PM, Rob Seaman wrote: Meanwhile, over the past week or two I have not been able to connect to NIST's UT1 server: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-services/ut1-ntp-time-dissemination My SNTP

Re: [LEAPSECS] current / future state of UT1 access?

2018-03-16 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2018-03-16 01:18 PM, Rob Seaman wrote: Meanwhile, over the past week or two I have not been able to connect to NIST's UT1 server: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-services/ut1-ntp-time-dissemination My SNTP implementation reaches Judah's UT1 server today as

Re: [LEAPSECS] current / future state of UT1 access?

2018-03-16 Thread Steven Sommars
I regularly monitor the NIST public NTP servers including the UT1 server. ut1-time.colorado.edu reachability was good for the past 10 weeks, though the server was briefly in alarm on January 22 and March 10. I can supply details off-list. NTP traffic is subject to Internet delay and loss that

[LEAPSECS] current / future state of UT1 access?

2018-03-16 Thread Rob Seaman
Hi all, Regarding Demetrios's response to Steve: did astronomers give advice divergent to what CCIR decided?It isn't obvious how the history of this rather typical, if somewhat esoteric, technical debate amounts to "strong emotional bias". I reject the implication that technical disagreements, at

Re: [LEAPSECS] [Non-DoD Source] D.H. Sadler in 1954

2018-03-16 Thread Matsakis, Demetrios N CIV NAVOBSY, N3TS
I was surprised to find phrases in the Lick web pages: "CCIR ignored the advice that astronomers " and "squelched astronomers who insisted that leap seconds would cause trouble". I realize their author is not the only person with a strong emotional bias, but even so I question the tone of