[LEAPSECS] UTC Redefinition Advanced

[p at 2038bug.com]

> 

> Rob ... you're absolutely right.  Eliminating leap seconds WOULD  

> introduce a secular trend ... IF (and here's the part I haven't  convinced 

> you about yet) no other means for compensating for it is  implemented, 

> FOREVER AND EVER. 

> 


The Pisa architects are in a meeting: 

"Let us not worry about subsidence - we can always deal with that issue 
later." 

FOREVER AND EVER is how long it will take for a hundred member countries to 
agree on something that every single clock on earth has to be engineered to 
deal with. 

Instituting a new time standard is not an EASY project like a manned mission 
to Mars. It DIFFICULT project like trying to negotiate a Palestinian-Israeli 
resolution ten times over. 

 -paul