[time-nuts] Re: UTC is the tail that wags the dog

[Lux, Jim]

On 2/1/23 9:19 AM, Steve Allen via time-nuts wrote:
> On Tue 2023-01-31T10:20:13-0800 Lux, Jim via time-nuts hath writ:
>> TAI please, not UTC with ickyness like leapseconds. And, yes, there are
>> people who use GMT (although they're really using UTC, they just call it
>> GMT).
> But UTC is the primary.  UTC is the tail that wags the dog.
> TAI has no legal existence.  UTC is the legal time scale most places.
> Only BIPM can make TAI, no national laboratory can make TAI.
> Most national labs are required by statue to make UTC, and from

> those BIPM constructs TAI.

But in a space application you want no leapseconds - In practice 
everyone runs a local clock, and then goes through gyrations to convert 
that into some recognized frame and epoch.



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