[time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

[Mike S]

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?