Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one

Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one by fanf2 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:20PM (#29927763)

It is a curious fact that UTC is specified by the ITU in recommendation TF.460 https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.460-6-200202-I/en which also includes a specification for how radio time broadcasts should be formatted. I don’t know if any time signals actually use that format, tho.

That part of the ITU used to be CCIR, the international consultative committee for radio, which goes a little way to explaining it, but it is still strange that it isn’t the responsibility of the IAU, IERS, or SI.

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Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one by sla29970 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:25AM (#29963897)

Strange is what they said just after the CCIR incepted leap seconds at the SI subcommittee in charge of the subject: "The CCIR may have overstepped its remit in defining the UTC" and "The process that led to UTC may have been illogical, but it was effective"

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