I have changed the subject line since "battle" seems overly dramatic to me. The goal should simply be to clearly demarcate various concepts and standards. For my part I don't regard this as a political fight and if there is a turf war it is more likely between TAI and GPS, with UTC as collateral damage.
To answer the question, a new IAU UTC working group has been formed. There was also controversy at the time. Rob -- On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> wrote: >> >>>> 10. the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service >>>> (IERS) provides a means of accessing UT1 in real-time by means of >>>> routinely available predictions of UT1-UTC with precision 100 000 >>>> times better that the coarse approximation UT1 = UTC currently >>>> provided by means of coding UTC to match UT1 within 0.9 second; >> >> This is irrelevant and is meant to imply that any issues with >> implementing a redefined UTC will be minor. They will not be minor for >> my community. > > I gathered from the report of the meeting that the IAU is happy with the > idea of abolishing leap seconds. > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ > Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. > Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, > occasionally poor at first. > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
