Neither are changes to civil time as decreed by local authorities predictable, but zoneinfo manages to handle the problem. If leap seconds went into zoneinfo with the underlying time_t being uniform then the handling of leaps would be in user space, not in kernel space.

There is no international regulation which specifies either TAI or GPS time, and the agencies which provide those do not want such regulation. For those who are constrained by regulation, only a time scale specified by the ITU-R will suffice.

The reason we adjust for solar time is that two standing international agreements demand that we define the day as a "mean solar day". Computer people and farmers can use different times if mean solar days are not made illegal and replaced with atomic days, that's what zoneinfo is for.

The historical record of time_t is already ambiguous and cannot be corrected by abandoning leap seconds. There is a way to get leap seconds out of the kernel and into user space which amounts to reclassifying them as decrees of change of civil time and putting them into zoneinfo while letting the broadcast time scale not have leaps. It's a matter for posterity whether the word "day" will be re-defined by the ITU-R, changed from the current treaty-specified "mean solar day" to a technically-defined "atomic day".

He posited execs who had embedded goniometers to ensure that each bow to a Japanese business partner reached the appropriate level. This looks ripe for similar treatment.

Radio and x-ray images in their astro-ph preprint.

Did I just wake up in the future, because I can't stop myself from thinking of C.M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons.

Fix it in software? It's supposed to correspond to antenna physics

It's not W32Time. It is not possible to regulate the Windows system clock that well no matter what is used to try to do it.

to get what accuracy? the ionosphere can mess up GPS signals by about 100 nanoseconds

Microsoft refuses to consider the notion of clocks accurate to within 2 seconds.

This means there are now six useable reflectors. See the list from the investigators.