[time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)
Mike S
mikes at flatsurface.com
Wed Aug 10 19:03:28 UTC 2011
At 02:42 PM 8/10/2011, Magnus Danielson wrote...
>Much of todays "proliferation of UTC" or whatever it is being called,
>is due to the need of a TAI-like scale in a number of systems due to
>technical reasons. The time-lords could have avoided that from the
>start by acknowledging that use of TAI would be as valid as the use of
>UTC, where UTC is better suited as "legal time" basis while TAI is
>better suited for internal time in systems. They now tries to bend UTC
>itself into a UTC or TAI derivate.
If they don't want people to use TAI for the TAI-like timescale, then
use GPS or SMPTE, or LORAN, which are the same, only different. Taking
the one widely distributed timescale which is earth rotation based and
removing that characteristic is lunacy, especially when there are so
many other suitable choices.
And who, exactly, says "don't use TAI?" Is this documented somewhere,
or do you have to be a member of the secret time society which wants to
control it all?
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