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Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...
From: "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <lists () packetflux com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:54:59 -0700
Personally I'd like to see the UTC timescale be fixed to the TAI timescale with a fixed offset determined by whatever the offset is when they make the change. Or stated as a different solution with the same result: quit adding/removing seconds from the TAI to UTC offset. At the same time, those that rely on UTC being closely related to the historical astronomical meaning of time being related to the rotation of the earth can either move to UT1 (which is in theory more accurate for this purpose), or continue the procedure that is currently used by UTC to create a newly named timescale. On Wed, Aug 3, 2022, 8:20 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote a message of 32 lines which said:General press loses its *mind*:Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the universal way time is measured on Earth – may have to change" They don't even know the difference between TAI and UTC.
Current thread:
- IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Jay Ashworth (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Aug 03)
- RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Matthew Huff (Aug 03)
- RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Jay Ashworth (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Marshall Eubanks (Aug 03)
- RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Peter Beckman (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Jay R. Ashworth (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Matthew Kaufman (Aug 08)
- RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Matthew Huff (Aug 03)
- RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Daniel Marks via NANOG (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Harlan Stenn (Aug 08)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Stephane Bortzmeyer (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Forrest Christian (List Account) (Aug 03)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... John Levine (Aug 04)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Forrest Christian (List Account) (Aug 04)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Jay R. Ashworth (Aug 08)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Billy Croan (Aug 10)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... John R. Levine (Aug 10)
- Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... Tony Finch (Aug 12)