[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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