[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

[Gerard Ashton]

I find it remarkable that one group of time users chose a
particular time dissemination mode (GPS) and made the typical
array of poor decisions / errors with software. They also
create a rather arbitrary demand of obtaining correct UTC
within 5 minutes of installing hardware that has been
sitting on a shelf for years.

They then decide the solution to there largely self-made
problems is that the rest of the world should:
 -Redefine the name for the most widely used time scale in a way that conflicts
  with the present definition.
 -Everyone who wrote correct software to re-correct the software.
 -Abandon any cultural connection between civil time and actual earth rotation
 -Rewrite laws that refer to mean time so they refer to UTC, since the
  difference between mean time and UTC will gradually become legally
significant.

I'm inclined to reject the proposal on the grounds that the proposers are
too arrogant.

Gerry Ashton