HI I agree that there are more considerations than simply changing the world over to UT1. My guess is that the TimeNuts list is unlikely to answer those questions. We *could* get a handful of servers running. Experimenting with them is likely a prerequisite to any change down the road.
Bob > On Jul 23, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> wrote: > > On Sat 2016-07-23T10:10:07 -0400, Bob Camp hath writ: >> Ok, so now what we need are at least 5 other public UT1 NTP servers so you >> can properly >> synch up to a set of them. > > If this turns into a serious thing then it deserves consideration > whether such servers should be UT1, or instead UT2. > > UT2 was the standard in the CCIR recommendations for radio broadcasts > before UTC with leap seconds (and in fact it was specified as the > underlying time scale in the first version of the CCIR leap second > document) specifically because it was smoother than UT1 over the > course of a year. > > -- > Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) > UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 > 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 > Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
