On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:13:17PM -0500, Mike S wrote: > On 6/24/2014 5:59 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > >To me, it seems the reasonable thing to do would be to decouple UTC and > >UT1 completely and make the adjustment at a higher level like > >timezones if necessary. > > You're doing it wrong. If you don't want leap seconds, use a timescale which > doesn't have them (e.g. TAI, GPS). UTC was created to closely track Sol. > Decoupling that breaks its purpose, and the promise made when it took over > from GMT.
Yes, but to me it looks like redefining UTC to not track solar time anymore is easier than converting everyone and everything to keep time in TAI. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
