[time-nuts] Future of UTC 2013

[DaveH]

Love the graphic on the website.

The use of a Foucault Pendulum with Earth as the bob is inspired... 

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> Subject: [time-nuts] Future of UTC 2013
> 
> In late 2011 we held a meeting on the Future of UTC in Exton 
> Pennsylvania.
> The 400 pages of proceedings from the presentations at that meeting
> have been published on paper and in electronic form.
> 
> The sequel to that meeting is planned for late May of this year.
> 	Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth
>     A Colloquium Addressing a Continuous Time Standard to be held at
>     the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA May 29-31, 2013.
> 
> The subject of the meeting notes the ITU-R process regarding possible
> changes to radio broadcast time signals (and the associated internet
> equivalents).  Full details of the upcoming meeting are available via
> http://futureofutc.org/
> At that site are also links to the proceedings from the 2011 meeting.
> 
> The co-chairs are P. Kenneth Seidelmann, John Seago, Rob 
> Seaman and me.
> The period for submitting abstracts remains open until the end of this
> week.  We invite contributions which address the issues described in
> the Call for Papers at the website.
> 
> Folks on the time-nuts list know how time gets into operational
> systems.  We would be glad to see some of that expertise at the
> meeting.
> 
> --
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