[time-nuts] Fwd: UTC Leap Seconds to Continue Until at Least 2023
Pete Lancashire
pete at petelancashire.com
Fri Nov 20 02:56:55 UTC 2015
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From: Richard B. Langley <lang at unb.ca>
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:08 AM
Subject: UTC Leap Seconds to Continue Until at Least 2023
To: CANSPACE at listserv.unb.ca
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to retain “leap second”
New reference time scale to be considered by World Radiocommunication
Conference in 2023
Geneva, 19 November 2015 – The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference
(WRC-15), currently in session in Geneva from 2 to 27 November, has decided
that further studies are required on the impact and application of a future
reference time-scale, including the modification of coordinated universal
time (UTC) and suppressing the so-called “leap second”.
More: https://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2015/53.aspx
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