[time-nuts] UTC Leap Seconds to Continue Until at Least 2023

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Eight years is an eternity in internet time. If you look at the number of “IoT” gizmos they
think will be fielded, its a massive number of autonomous systems. To a great extent
they are even more crazy to update than desktop or rack mount systems. 

By 2020, this whole issue may be … errr …. past it’s time.  

Bob

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
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> 
> 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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