[time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Mon Jul 2 01:41:24 UTC 2012


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.



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