Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

[Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>]

On 7/5/2012 10:42 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Thu 2012-07-05T10:26:22 -0700, Roy hath writ:
> > Lets see.  There have been nine leap seconds in 20 years.  So at the
> > start of the next century the difference will probably be less than a minute
> There is no predicting how large the decadal variations in LOD will be,
> but the difference should be somewhere between 1 minute and 3 minutes.
> Please see these charts and tables for how unpredictable it is.
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
>
> > Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to
> > ignore leap seconds.  I don't include myself among the possible users of
> > OpenTime.
> Anyone who needs that can already do that using existing, deployed,
> and tested code and hardware and the GPS system time scale.  Please
> see this worked example.  Please do not invent yet another private
> time scale.
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/right+gps.html
>
> ...

So basically the concept of OpenTime is already implemented.  All that's 
needed is a list of Stratum-1 servers that anyone can use.