[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Michael Sokolov]

Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:


> There should be no fragmentation of the underlying

> timescale, and there will continue to be a consensus realization of it.


How sure are you of the last part?  How sure are you that some
countries won't consider the ITU's UTC redefinition act to be
fraudulent and illegitimate, and continue operating their national
time services with leap seconds or some other mechanism (e.g.,
rubberization) that ties their national time base to MST?

MS