[LEAPSECS] POSIX Time

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2009-10-13T11:39:11 -0600, M. Warner Losh hath writ:

> Are all the other time scales supposed to be nominally TAI + offset +

> error-in-execution-that-is-tiny, or are there some other subtle

> definitions that makes them evolve in a way that's different than TAI?


See Lewandowski at CGSIC 49
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/CGSIC/meetings/49thmeeting/Reports/%5B39%5DTiming_WL_General.pdf

Especially see the ICG draft recommendation.  If that takes force then
BIPM's repeated alarms about "proliferation of time scales" may cease
to have basis (but as worded that is true only so long as UTC
continues to have something like its current relation to TAI).

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