Rob Seaman said: > Redefining UTC will break things immediately in astronomy and aerospace and > related applications.
False. It might break them at the point that |DUT| > 0.9s. Or it might not. But it won't break them until then, which could easily be some years away. > And it will leave any purely atomic timescale many minutes or hours in error > at a future epoch with no plan for mitigation. They won't be "in error" - that's another of your misrepresentations. They will be different to UT, deliberately. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs