[LEAPSECS] Conversational caffeine

[Steve Allen]

On Sat 2011-01-29T00:47:51 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:

> I'm refering to the fact that IAU resolution B2 from 2000 said

> the subject should be studied, and that essentially the conclusion

> of the division 1 working group was that there were no clear

> consensus with a large majority being in the "who cares" range

> of the spectrum.


The results from year 2000 are before the nature and boundaries of the
problem were clear to anybody.  It's not really fair to look at results
prior to the ITU-R's colloquium in Torino in 2003.

The strange part is that the US delegates to the ITU-R have been
fighting and denying the result of that from the start.

The result was "Yes, abandon the leap seconds, but when you
do that change the name of the time scale."

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