[time-nuts] Leap second glitches on NTP using Z3801A

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Nov 17 04:47:18 UTC 2008


> and Tony Jones's book "The Story of Atomic Time" GPS time does not
> account for leap seconds, So why does it alert you to them? 

You end up needing both with and without leap seconds.

GPS time is without leap seconds.  It also distributes the number of leap 
seconds that have been inserted since GPS started so you can translate GPS 
time into UTC.  So then you need a warning if one is coming up soon.

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