[time-nuts] Solving the UTC drift problem
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jul 14 02:25:24 EDT 2005
In message <a05210601befba18cc387@[192.168.0.8]>, 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 frequency between 9,192,631,770 Hz or ,780 Hz annually
>to make time speed up or slow down to match the earth's rotation.
That has already been tried (1958...1972) It was not a success.
>The beauty of this method is that there are only a few hundred Cs
>clocks in the world,
This number is probably one or two orders of magitude to low, but
a lot of them are telecom timers so they can be ignored.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
More information about the time-nuts
mailing list