[LEAPSECS] ISO TC 37

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <687E600B-E3AF-42C1-8D4F-24B8851A3B2B at bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh write
s:


>The ITU standard is the standard for radio broadcast time.  That's

>why everybody broadcasts UTC (+/- some fixed offset) today.  To

>conform with international standards, they would broadcast the new

>timescale.


Well, there it gets "interesting".

A lot of technical treaties and regulations say UTC in no uncertain words,
for instance in air-space regulations.   I am pretty certain that creating
a new timescale and mandating its transmission over for instance WWV[B] and
DCF77 would give a lot of interesting issues where ATC facilities are
time synchronized to the new scale, but should have been to the UTC scale.

I can't imagine any delegate to the ITU being stupid enough to put his
name on that idea.

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