On 7/1/2012 8:24 PM, Jim Palfreyman wrote:
Thoughts?
UTC was specifically defined/specified to closely track the other UTx timescales. Breaking that link penalizes those who use it as it was intended. If being close to solar time isn't important for some applications, and they don't want to deal with leap seconds, they shouldn't be using UTC. There are multiple "non-leap" timescales already available for their use, or they can create a new one. If there are legal reasons they need to use UTC, work to change the laws. Returning to GMT (or a UTx scale not linked to the TAI rate) would be a logical choice.
Eliminating leap seconds from UTC breaks it. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
