[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Fri Jul 15 00:40:26 UTC 2011


At 06:51 PM 7/14/2011, iovane\@inwind\.it wrote...
> >From the above website:
>A conclusive proposal to fundamentally redefine UTC is scheduled for a 
>vote by the Radiocommunications Assembly of the ITU-R in January, 2012.

It's just sheer stupidity. A bunch of people who chose to use the UTC 
timescale when they should have chosen TAI now want to screw up UTC for 
those who use it as intended. If they don't want to deal with leap 
seconds, they should be using TAI or GPS time, not trying to redefine 
UTC to be a THIRD timescale unlinked from the heavens.

And that applies to those who are forced into UTC through legal, or 
other requirements - work to get the law or requirements changed 
instead of changing the definition of UTC. It already is what it's 
supposed to be.





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