[LEAPSECS] the inescapability of feedback

[John E Hein]

Steve Allen wrote at 18:56 -0700 on Mar 31, 2008:
 > On Mon 2008-03-31T08:06:54 -0600, John E Hein hath writ:
 > > If UTC no longer has leap
 > > seconds or the computers use Steve's TI or similar
 > 
 > International Time, Temps International, TI is not my invention.
 > I was not at the Colloquium on UTC that the ITU-R WP7A held in Torino
 > in 2003.  TI is the result that was produced at the end of that
 > meeting.  See page 3 of the closure/conclusion produced by Ron Beard
 > 
 > http://www.ien.it/luc/cesio/itu/closure.pdf
 > 
 > The ITU-R called for international experts to come and provide advice,
 > and the advice was to change the name.

Sorry to imply that Steve invented it.  He put it forward as a time_t
replacement in his Feb 9 "zoneinfo" proposal.