[LEAPSECS] Changing the name of UTC

[Tony Finch]

Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Every time scale I've ever heard of has a projection into the past,
> before the time scale was fully defined.

I am not aware of any consensus definition for proleptic UTC, unless you
do the fully accurate model going from UT(2?) through the rate shifts and
subsecond leaps of the 1960s to leap seconds from the 1970s. But that
isn't a proleptic extension of the current UTC definition.

Tony.
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