[LEAPSECS] Alanna Mitchell in NYT

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Mon Nov 14 18:48:02 EST 2022


On Mon 2022-11-14T23:44:54+0000 Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS hath writ:
>  The reason why the CIPM (for now) sticks to the requirement that
>  |UTC - UT1| be bounded is most probably the argument brought forward
>  by some people from ISO who say that, without explicit bound on
>  |UTC - UT1|, UTC had to change its name so that "polysemy" is avoided.

The funny part there is that UT1 does not mean what they think it means.

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