[LEAPSECS] drawing the battle lines

[Kevin.Birth at qc.cuny.edu]

I can understand points 1 through 8, 10, and 11, but . . .

What is gained by point 9 stating that UT1 should not be considered as a 
time scale? 

Kevin

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On Mar 20, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Steve Allen wrote:


> The BIPM website has a few new tidbits related to UTC.

> 

> They celebrate 25 years since the BIH was abolished, TAI

> was transferred from BIH to BIPM, and Circular T was started.

> 

> They also celebrate one year since starting the new "UTCr".

> 

> And they have published the report of the 19th meeting of the CCTF

> http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/CCTF19.pdf

> in which there is a long discussion of the UTC shenanigans at ITU-R.

> 

> 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.

> 

> 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.  In short, that

> history, tradition, law, and common public perception about what time

> is have been wrong.


A secular understanding of time is to a scientific time scale as a 
biblical understanding of origins is to scientific evolution theory.

Warner

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