On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Brooks Harris <bro...@edlmax.com> wrote: > Well, its clear the "end game" would take a long time to realize. It will > take serious patience on the part of folks who care.
We’re halfway there, then ;-) This conversation has been going on for a very long time. Click through to the archives for the current list and for the original leapsecs list from: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/links.html The place to start before making a foray into the mailing list, however, is with Steve Allen’s excellent pages: http://ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/ > My point is that the standards, where they exist, are dispersed and fractured. Indeed. They are also contingent on physical context from the real world. It is simple fact that a single time scale is insufficient to model the complexity of the systems required. > So, an effort to simply consolidate the terms, definitions, and standards > into a single reference document would go a long way toward lending clarity > to system implementers, other industries, and, importantly, to governments > seeking to refine their laws to coordinate time and commerce with other > jurisdictions. Maybe a reference library is a reasonable place to start rather than a single document. I’m biased, but not therefore wrong, in recommending the proceedings of the 2011 and 2013 UTC meetings: Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation: http://futureofutc.org/2011/preprints/ Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth: http://futureofutc.org/preprints/ The published proceedings are available from the American Astronautical Society: http://www.univelt.com/Science.html As well as this week’s well attended American Astronomical Society splinter meeting: http://futureofutc.org/aas223/ Rob Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs