[LEAPSECS] "China move could call time on GMT"

[Rob Seaman]

Umn, no.  They are rather fuzzily suggesting that they can get away with an insipid shell game.

Time-of-day is and will remain an angle.  That angle will be poorly approximated by a redefined secularly diverging UTC.  There are plenty of options for improving the current approximation and/or infrastructure.  Just imagine if the temporal powers-that-be had spent the last twelve years focusing on system engineering rather than politics.

Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <37559224-850D-49F1-9B57-2B89E107C53A at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

> 

>> As you say, there could be additional parameters of interest.  The

>> ITU is proceeding with a naive (and expensive) agenda that cadence

>> is the same thing as angle.

> 

> Uhm, no.  They are quite clearly proposing that angle isn't time any more.