[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 30 Dec 2008 at 9:50, M. Warner Losh wrote:


> The reason to have standards is to lower costs, not to raise them.

> Leap seconds raise costs and have unproven benefits (eg, a low DUT1

> is a feature, but who really cares about that feature)? 


And, if the standards were enacted after 1972, whoever promulgated 
them knew, or should have known, that the UTC standard on which they 
were basing their standards was one which included leap seconds.  If 
this fact was unacceptable to the cost-effectiveness of the proposed 
standard, they should have chosen a different time scale as their 
basis, as in fact GPS did when they chose to create a new time scale 
themselves.

It's the height of arrogance to expect the rest of the world to 
change how it does things to suit some technical standard makers who 
made a bad choice years ago that they don't want to continue living 
with.

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