[LEAPSECS] plan B

[Steve Allen]

The news is in the first document at
http://ussg7.org/pages/document/documentApproved.jsp
named 7A/4 r1

In short, among the dysfunctional families of organizations who
oversee time scales, those who want to abandon leap seconds are
preparing to concede that if they can't have custody of the baby (UTC)
then they want to officially adopt a new baby (GPS system time, and --
as a result of the US Dept.  of State negotiations during the past 4
years -- therefore also Galileo navigation satellite system time).

Anyone want to try to come up with a name for the new baby that
doesn't seem too US- or EU- centric?

(Hint, anything with the letters TAI in it is probably off limits
unless the BIPM can also be persuaded to play this game.)

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