On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote: > On 27 September 2016 at 10:02, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: >> So, if everyone who is smearing is doing so piecewise-linear, it seems >> there is a great opportunity for them to get together and choose a >> consensus set of smear parameters. >> >> Amazon -12h +12h >> Bloomberg -0 +2ks >> Google -10h +10h >> QTnet -"about 2 hours" +0 >> UTC-SLS -1ks +0 > > Great summary! And yes, choosing a single approach to smearing would > be highly desirable at this point. > > All of these are compatible with the Java Time-Scale [1] which favours > UTC-SLS, but has as a basic requirement that it matches the de facto > international civil time scale (broadcast UTC) at noon each day. The > Java Time-Scale can also be changed if a standard smearing approach > comes out.
Eliminating leap seconds would be a great way to unify all these approaches :) And it too is compatible with JTS. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs