[LEAPSECS] drawing the battle lines

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20130320134629.GA31763 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>Concluding the report is Resolution 6 in which the CCTF declares what

>UT1 is and is not, what UTC is, and what a time scale is in a fashion

>that directly contradicts the 1976 IAU definition of time scale.


Its not unreasonable to expect somebody with "Time" and "Frequency"
in their name had a better grasp of that, than somebody with
"Astronomy" in their name, is it ?


>In particular, resolution 6 makes it plain that the count of days in a

>calendar and the subdivision of those days is not a time scale if

>those days are measured by astronomical means.


Given that the SI second is based on quantum mechanics, that can hardly
surprise anybody.


>In short, that history, tradition, law, and common public perception

>about what time is have been wrong.


In other words: Just like Einstein proved Newtons mechanics wrong.

It's called "Scientific Progress".

You should try it.

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