[LEAPSECS] ISO TC 37

[Tony Finch]

Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

>

> Why wait?  An advantage with creating TI is that it need have no

> connection to UTC at all.  Stand up TI separately and immediately, and

> deprecate UTC (or don't) when convenient.


The point is to make civil time easier to use and the only way to achieve
that by simplifying UTC. Anyone can and does set up an atomic timescale
(e.g. GPS, IEEE 1588, etc) if they don't need to follow civil time.

Tony.
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