To: rarestia
This is only a problem for hyper-accurate time keeping requirements for technologies such as GPS. But GPS time doesn't adjust for leap seconds. There is a different line in the transmitted GPS time word that describes the accumulated leap seconds since GPS epoch in 1980.
27 posted on
01/12/2015 8:23:45 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
The receivers on the ground wouldn’t necessarily account for that, would they?
30 posted on
01/12/2015 8:27:26 AM PST by
rarestia
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