[time-nuts] CCTF Survey on redefinition of the Second and UTC

[Hal Murray]

The survey points to CCTF's YouTube site.  It has 7 videos.  Most are 20 
minutes, and interesting mix of technology and politics.
    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CCTF_Survey_2020
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-vj-3_a7wTBb7CKy-ckmZM8L6K3hipR5
They are all slide shows with a small talking head in the corner.

The first talk has a nice graph showing quality of atomic clocks over time, 
both cesium and optical.
  Roadmap to the redefinition - Introduction
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8bUlkBlTo
It's about 2 minutes in.

There is a talk on UTC and leap seconds.
  Leap second in UTC - building a consensus for a continuous time scale
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1jjiDzYGY
It doesn't look like an official proposal yet, but the suggestion is to stop 
leaping and sort out the problems later.  One complication is that UT1-UTC 
will grow over 1 second and that won't fit in places that know it is less that 
1

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