{"id":857,"date":"2011-06-29T15:43:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galsys.co.uk\/news\/?p=857"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:42:25","slug":"leap-second-argument-rumbles-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/leap-second-argument-rumbles-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap Second Argument Rumbles On"},"content":{"rendered":"

The argument about the use of the Leap Second continues to rumble on with astronomers again calling for the abolition of this chronological \u2018fudge.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Galleon's NTS 6001 GPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Leap Second is added to Coordinated Universal Time to ensure the global time, coincides with the movement of the Earth. The problems occur because modern atomic clocks<\/a> are far more precise than the rotation of the planet, which varies minutely in the length of a day, and is gradually slowing down, albeit minutely.<\/p>\n

Because of the differences in time of the Earth\u2019s spin and the true time told by atomic clocks, occasional seconds need adding to the global timescale UTC\u2014Leap Seconds. However, for astronomers, leap seconds are a nuisance as they need to keep track of both the Earth\u2019s spin\u2014astronomical time\u2014to keep their telescopes fixed on studied objects, and UTC, which they need as atomic clock source to work out the true astronomical time.<\/p>\n

Next year, however, a group of astronomical scientists and engineers, plan to draw attention to the forced nature of Leap Seconds at the World Radiocommunication Conference. They say that as the drift caused by not including leap seconds would take such a long time\u2014probably over a millennia, to have any visible effect on the day, with noon gradually shifting to afternoon, there is little need for Leap Seconds.<\/p>\n

Whether Leap Seconds remain or not, getting an accurate source of UTC time is essential for many modern technologies. With a global economy and so much trade conducted online, over continents, ensuring a single time source prevents the problems different time-zones could cause.<\/p>\n

Making sure everybody\u2019s clock reads the same time is also important and with many technologies millisecond accuracy to UTC is vital\u2014such as air traffic control and international stock markets.<\/p>\n

NTP time servers such as Galleon\u2019s NTS 6001 GPS, which can provide millisecond accuracy using the highly precise and secure GPS signal, enable technologies and computer networks to function in perfect synchronicity to UTC, securely and without error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The argument about the use of the Leap Second continues to rumble on with astronomers again calling for the abolition of this chronological \u2018fudge.\u2019 The Leap Second is added to Coordinated Universal Time to ensure the global time, coincides with the movement of the Earth. The problems occur because modern atomic clocks are far more…<\/p>\n

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