[LEAPSECS] Cutting our losses: MST without UTC

2011-08-05 Thread Michael Sokolov
Hello leap second debaters, As I have stated here many times previously, I am utterly disgusted by what the ITU is considering doing to UTC. As I have also stated here many times previously, I will not sit back and allow the computer systems under my care to be at the mercy of whatever the ITU de

Re: [LEAPSECS] Metrologia on time

2011-08-05 Thread Ian Batten
On 4 Aug 2011, at 16:10, Warner Losh wrote: > > The error grows with DUT1, so using UTC to navigate, point telescopes, etc > becomes harder. Systems that used to ignore DUT1 errors since they were > small would need to be updated. Other than navigation by sextant though, I'm > not aware of t