[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Rob Seaman]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> Nobody is "dispensing with mean solar time", you will always be able  

> to calculate it if you want to.


Just as you are now able to calculate TAI from UTC :-)

The issue, of course, is in details.

By redefining UTC, the ITU proposal would require rewriting our  
extensively and remotely deployed codebase simply to maintain access  
to mean solar time.  This is a mirror reflection of what you complain  
about on your part - other than that we have been coding to the  
standard all this time and others have apparently not.

There's no need to revisit entrenched positions.  Rather, let's seek a  
new solution that is satisfactory to all.  This is not a zero-sum game.

Rob