[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jul 15 05:57:45 UTC 2011


In message <20110715004035.39B88A007D at locke.alientech.net>, Mike S writes:
>At 06:51 PM 7/14/2011, iovane\@inwind\.it wrote...

>It's just sheer stupidity. A bunch of people who chose to use the UTC 
>timescale when they should have chosen TAI [...]

Yes, it is just sheer stupidity to postulate random arguments without
doing proper research first:

Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from
TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and
told the world to use UTC.

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