Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap seconds have a larger context than POSIX

2020-02-03 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2020-02-03 10:37 AM, Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS wrote: The 1970 report also contains the proposal that the CIPM should be responsible for the definition of UTC, and 49 years later, the CGPM in 2019 seems to have taken on that task with the resolution

Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap seconds have a larger context than POSIX

2020-02-03 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
On 2020-02-02 22:30, Steve Allen wrote: On Sun 2020-02-02T17:59:20+ Michael Deckers hath writ: The maximum deviation |UTC - UT1| <= 0.9 s as stipulated in 1974 by CCIR Rec. 460-1 has never been violated until now. That violates the agreement that the difference between UTC and UT1 would