[RndTbl] Climate change is messing with GPS time-keeping!

[Gilbert E. Detillieux]

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