[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20140118161657.GA1863 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>The ITU-R's only options are:

>    UTC with leap seconds (status quo)

>and

>    a new time scale which is continuous in value to the current

>    UTC at the instant of change from old to new (no leap at

>    the transition)


Says you and what army ?

The ITU can do pretty much any damn thing they can get through their
general assembly, what with them being a UN organization and all
that...

If they want to put decimal ours on UTC starting on the GenSecs
birthday, that's fully within their power.

The question is if anybody is going to follow their *recommendation*.

It's not like their recommendations have much legal weight, remember
the OSI protocols ?  Remember the Modem Wars ?

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