Re: [time-nuts] Solving the UTC drift problem

2005-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Forbes writes: A modest proposal: Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC to drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the second's definition from time to time as needed. That is, dither the Cs transition

[time-nuts] Solving the UTC drift problem

2005-07-13 Thread David Forbes
A modest proposal: Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC to drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the second's definition from time to time as needed. That is, dither the Cs transition frequency between 9,192,631,770 Hz or ,780 Hz annually