On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, TOGoS wrote: > > Actually, they did. UTC (which was the original > > reference) is defined such that noon is within .9 > > seconds of the sun being as directly overhead as > > it can be, and is thus directly tied to the > > behaviour of the planet.
UTC may stop tracking UT1 and stop having [new] leap-seconds. Even if this happens we'll still have to take leap-seconds into account for dates prior to 1999. > My point remains. Don't use UTC, then :) That's why we > want to ignore leap seconds. I agree. That's why I'd like to see TAI be the default "seconds since some epoch". -J --
