[LEAPSECS] ISO TC 37

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 17 Jan 2012 at 10:12, Ian Batten wrote:


> Which is a deal breaker, because whatever a country adopts as civil

> time, that's going to be the primary payload on its national

> broadcast standards 


And what if some countries use a solar-time-based standard and some 
an atomic-time-based one (as is actually the case with current law), 
and hence some broadcast a leapless scale and others either continue 
leap seconds or use some other scheme to keep their broadcasts in 
approximate sync with UT1?  Then we'd have a complex worldwide 
situation where different countries' civil times are no longer round 
multiples of hours (or occasionally half or quarter hours) from each 
other, but vary by seconds (or maybe even fractions of seconds if the 
solar-based countries go back to rubber seconds).



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