[time-nuts] The future of UTC

cook michael michael.cook at sfr.fr
Fri Jul 15 09:36:02 UTC 2011


Le 15/07/2011 10:33, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit :
> In message<4E1FFA88.9050400 at sfr.fr>, cook michael writes:
>
> Michael, there are a few details you overlook, and rather than
> repeat myself, I'll point you at an article I wrote for Queue and
> Communications of The ACM, trying to lay out the bits:
>
> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1967009
>
Thanks for your ref.  I am aware of the shortcomings of the present 
scheme and am not particularly pro leap second. It seems to me that the 
right questions are not being addressed and certainly the proposition 
for change as expressed and to be voted on in 2012 is premature. The US 
are just wanting leap seconds abolished without proposing alternative 
schemes covering all the requirements of time signal users.    Once they 
have been defined , recommendations can be considered.  Till then , fix 
the bugs.






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