[RndTbl] Climate change is messing with GPS time-keeping!
Gilbert E. Detillieux
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Thu Aug 5 14:44:07 CDT 2021
For those of you who took in Wyatt's May presentation on setting up a
GPS-based NTP server,...
https://muug.ca/meetings/20-21.html#may
... you may be interested in this bit of weirdness...
https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1422163289518313474?s=21
TIL: Climate change has resulted in the earth spinning faster,
cancelling out leap seconds.
“As I previously said, the reason it will affect live GPS is due to, and
I hate to say it, global warming causing the earth to speed up,
unexpectedly.”
So, now you know!... :)
Gilbert
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2
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