[LEAPSECS] prep for WRC 23

[Michael Deckers]

    On 2023-11-26 06:59, Steve Allen wrote:

> This week began the meeting of ITU-R WRC 23.


    ..and it ended on 2023-12-15. The ITU-R news channel
[https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2023-12-15-WRC23-closing-ceremony.aspx]
    mentions a "key outcome"of WRC23:

      " ∙ Endorsement of the decision by the International Bureau of 
Weights and Measures
          (BIPM) to adopt Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as the de 
facto time standard by
          2035, with the possibility to extend the deadline to 2040 in 
cases where existing
          equipment cannot be replaced earlier. "

    It is unclear what this is intended to mean: endorsement of the CGPM 
(not BIPM)
    decision implies that UTC will be continuous (not "de facto standard")
    from 2035 onward, so what "deadline" may still be shifted to 2040?
    ITU-R continue their (and CCIR's) tradition of murky statements 
about UTC.

    Michael Deckers.