[LEAPSECS] Caveat emptor!

[Tony Finch]

Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

>

> No.  The words "Universal Time" will be ambiguous.  Under any given

> circumstances listeners will ask whether their usage in a document

> refers to the redefined UTC, or to the original UTC (documents are

> forever), or to some other variation such as GMT or UT1 or UT2, or just

> to the general concept of a timescale stationary with respect to the

> synodic day.


I see no big difference from the current ambiguity of the terms UT and GMT
and UTC. You seem to be complaining that people who don't care about
precision will use imprecise terms ambiguously.

Tony.
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