[LEAPSECS] final report of the UK leap seconds dialog

[Peter Vince]

Watching the video interviews on that site, with the members of the public,
I was disappointed that most of them seemed unaware of any technical
problems the leap-seconds cause.  I think the team running those sessions
did the whole idea a dis-service by not making those problems clearer :-(

On 5 February 2015 at 08:22, <mike at lumieresimaginaire.com> wrote:

>  Le 04.02.2015 15:49, Steve Allen a écrit :
>
> Thanks for this and your previous mail. Are you aware of any other
> countries which have 'polled' their populations?  On first scan it is clear
> that the British are concerned more about social/cultural issues than with
> cost/technical arguments, even mentioning, and I find this encouraging,
> that the UK deciders think out of the national box, taking into account
> international cultural points of view.
>
> Keep 'em coming.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> The final report of the UK leap seconds dialog is athttp://leapseconds.co.uk/reports-findings-dialogue/
>
> Search for the word "congestion" where it looks as if it once had a
> footnote mentioning a system which has avoided leap second problems by
> adopting a purely atomic time scale.
>
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