[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <7422CD7E-2405-4C94-99D6-B9DA1F1BC644 at pipe.nl>, Nero Imhard writes:

>On 2012-01-09, at 20:42, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

>> It can easily be argued that if you need UT to better than 1s, you

>> should use one of IERS's UT products and you will have five years to

>> make the fix.

>

>This is the arrogance I mentioned earlier. What good is a definition

>(that of UTC being a good approximation of UT) if you can't rely

>on it?


Uhm, we seem to have lost context:  If the definition is changed, you
get 5 years to switch to a timescale with a usable definition before
the change takes effect.

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