[LEAPSECS] Future of UTC 2013

[mike cook]

Le 19 févr. 2013 à 04:53, Steve Allen a écrit :


> In late 2011 we held a meeting on the Future of UTC in Exton Pennsylvania.

> The 400 pages of proceedings from the presentations at that meeting

> have been published on paper and in electronic form.

> 

> The sequel to that meeting is planned for late May of this year.

> 	Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth

>    A Colloquium Addressing a Continuous Time Standard to be held at

>    the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA May 29-31, 2013.

> 

> The subject of the meeting notes the ITU-R process regarding possible

> changes to radio broadcast time signals (and the associated internet

> equivalents).  Full details of the upcoming meeting are available via

> http://futureofutc.org/

> At that site are also links to the proceedings from the 2011 meeting.

> 

> The co-chairs are P. Kenneth Seidelmann, John Seago, Rob Seaman and me.

> The period for submitting abstracts remains open until the end of this

> week.  We invite contributions which address the issues described in

> the Call for Papers at the website.


Nice to see that the scope of the call for papers for this colloquium is much broader than that of the 2011 meeting.

Added, are:
 .... the domains of agriculture, architecture, astronomy, ...., history, law, medicine, meteorology, military defense, navigation, oceanography, remote sensing, and social and natural sciences. “Civil timekeeping” encompasses the maintenance of time-of-day for the benefit of human civilization at large; societal, religious, and non-scientific aspects of recording and using time-of-day may impose particular requirements within this meeting’s intended scope.

As much of this scope is served by people outside the scientific community (and much of the controversy relates to those fields) I would be interested to know what effort the 2013 meetings chairs made to engage those who might be affected by change from the status quo. Have papers from some of these fields already been received?  My hope is that the reflections are not limited to re bashing the same old ground. 

Mike






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