[LEAPSECS] drawing the lines

[Rob Seaman]

I have changed the subject line since "battle" seems overly dramatic to me.  The goal should simply be to clearly demarcate various concepts and standards.  For my part I don't regard this as a political fight and if there is a turf war it is more likely between TAI and GPS, with UTC as collateral damage.

To answer the question, a new IAU UTC working group has been formed.  There was also controversy at the time.

Rob
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On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:


> Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

>> 

>>>> 	10. the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service

>>>> (IERS) provides a means of accessing UT1 in real-time by means of

>>>> routinely available predictions of UT1-UTC with precision 100 000

>>>> times better that the coarse approximation UT1 = UTC currently

>>>> provided by means of coding UTC to match UT1 within 0.9 second;

>> 

>> This is irrelevant and is meant to imply that any issues with

>> implementing a redefined UTC will be minor.  They will not be minor for

>> my community.

> 

> I gathered from the report of the meeting that the IAU is happy with the

> idea of abolishing leap seconds.

> 

> Tony.

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