[LEAPSECS] WP7A status

[Rob Seaman]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Matsakis, Demetrios wrote:


> Both sides on this mailing list could use this example to promote  

> their

> case.  Opponents to a change would say that perfectly fine solutions

> exist to handle leap seconds, while advocates would say that  

> engineering

> solutions naturally gravitate towards the timescales that don't jump,

> whether or not they lead to confusion or suboptimal daily performance.


And these suggestions have been made.  One gets the impression that  
the - ahem - "advocate of change" despise GPS time more that UTC.

The issue also isn't "suboptimal daily performance", the issue is  
introducing a secular term into civil time.  This is precisely the  
quadratic term that the original GPS World article fretted about.

Rob