[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[mike cook]

Le 30/12/2011 23:23, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit :

> In message<37559224-850D-49F1-9B57-2B89E107C53A at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>

>> As you say, there could be additional parameters of interest.  The

>> ITU is proceeding with a naive (and expensive) agenda that cadence

>> is the same thing as angle.

> Uhm, no.  They are quite clearly proposing that angle isn't time any more.

>

I think Rob was saying just that:
"Building "better" time-of-day clocks is an exercise in accuracy to an 
external waveform. TAI is a metronome. UTC is a protractor."
The proposition is equating UTC with TAI and they are different beasts.