GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. This will cause no issues

Re:GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. Th... by himinlomax on Saturday July 24, 2021 @07:44PM (#27945354)

They are not required when using TAI. The only sensible way to count time is with TAI. UTC and its leap seconds should only be used for display/parsing, not for counting time. That people do otherwise is rage inducing.

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Re:GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. Th... by user-the-name on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:08PM (#27945490)

A time expressed in TAI that is in the future has no conversion to human-readable time. That is not a very useful piece of data for many, many use cases.

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Re:GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. Th... by d110af5ccf on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:44PM (#27945642)

> TAI that is in the future has no conversion to human-readable time

Doesn't it convert to within some margin for error? Checking Wikipedia, I see that the delta between TAI and Unix time has only drifted 27 seconds since 1972. That should be more than sufficient for your average mundane human readable purpose.

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Re:GPS will broadcast a 0 second leap second in 128 days. Th... by nextaccountic on Saturday July 24, 2021 @07:55PM (#27945410)

YEP! no timestamp should EVER be in UTC.

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