[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Rob Seaman said:

> Redefining UTC will break things immediately in astronomy and aerospace and related applications.


False.

It might break them at the point that |DUT| > 0.9s. Or it might not. But it
won't break them until then, which could easily be some years away.


> And it will leave any purely atomic timescale many minutes or hours in error at a future epoch with no plan for mitigation.


They won't be "in error" - that's another of your misrepresentations. They
will be different to UT, deliberately.

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