On Tue 2011-02-08T13:14:27 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ: > I'd be willing to agree that "Coupling of Civil time to the earth is > required." Coupling of the successor to UTC isn't required, or at least > there's not consensus that it is required.
The broadcast time signals should be as uniform as is technologically possible according to best current practices. Most governments of the world are signatories to agreements which state that Universal Time is a subdivision of the mean solar day which ultimately produces the calendar. Unless those agreements are explicitly terminated the notion of time continues to deserve input from astronomical measurements. We have the technical means to do both. The question is about the will. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
