[LEAPSECS] it's WP7A week in Geneva

[Nero Imhard]

M. Warner Losh wrote:


> Sam is very much aware of the practical difficulties in getting leap

> seconds right.  He was my boss, and as you all know, I've enumerated

> the problems here many times.


Valid points are being raised about leap seconds being royal PITAs for the
purposes of the ITU, and it is only reasonable that they want to get rid
of them.

But I'm quite disappointed that the question on the table continues to be
"should UTC abandon leap seconds?", while the relevant question is "should
the ITU stop using/broadcasting a time scale that is causing trouble?".

I'm worried that this hasn't even been considered by WP7A.

Decoupling UTC and UT isn't wrong in a way related to ITU's actual problem
(which makes the whole thing so disturbing); it's wrong in itself.

N