[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Tom Van Baak]

> This notion leaves open the question of the name UTC.  In particular,

> can the delegates to the ITU-R RA be persuaded to vote for a new

> version of TF.460 if they are aware that the new wording will change

> the legal definition of the word "day" in every country which has

> adopted UTC as its time scale?


Steve,

What is a typical example of the legal definition of a day? Would that definition be affected if DUT1 were allowed to grow to 2 s or 10 s or 60 s instead of 0.9 s?

/tvb