[LEAPSECS] ACM article

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <D4B74F35-B1EC-4AD5-BF07-DDE6D7B674D5 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>>> The current definition of UTC permits it to be used to recover an interval timescale.

>> 

>> Not if you are scheduling events in the future.

>

>Righto!  Time-of-day and interval timekeeping are two distinct

>things.  No single system can convey both with 100% self-consistence.


...and all were asking is that one particular timecale, the one that
runs our lives, originates on interval time, rather than earth rotation.

Given that astronomers have 10+ timescales, it is an amazing lack
of charity, that they can not spare one of them for the rest of the
populations needs.

Poul-Henning

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