[LEAPSECS] Skepticism

[Rob Seaman]

Post the proposal.  This is an international standard, discussions should be public.  "Key figures" should participate in this list, not run to ground.

"Perspective" is not a monopoly.  Declaring that "we're going to break it now, but reserve the right to fix it later" is not a strong argument for immediate change.

Rob
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On Dec 30, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Jonathan E. Hardis wrote:


> On Dec 30, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Greg Hennessy wrote:

> 

>>> To repeat myself, the punch line is this: NO ONE is advocating a perpetual drift apart between atomic time and "universal" time (sundial time).

>> 

>> What do you base this on, since I think the ITU proposal is exactly that?

> 

> The proposal is to end the system of leap seconds as established in 1972.

> 

> The proposal does nothing to tie the hands of any authority (e.g., ITU, CGPM) for future changes that would synchronize atomic and solar time.

> 

> My perspective comes from several private discussions with key figures involved with the ITU study.

> 

>    - Jonathan

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