[LEAPSECS] Name of proleptic leap-secondless UTC

[Gerard Ashton]

If the view put forward in Australia's document cited by Steve Allen
prevails, something serious is missing. Every time scale I've ever heard of
has a projection into the past, before the time scale was fully defined. Of
course, the precision of such projections is limited by the available data,
but people will insist on projecting every time scale into the past. So UTC
abandons the insertion of leap seconds at time F. What shall we call the
time scale which is formed by subtracting the desired number of SI seconds
from F and, if desired, expressing as a Gregorian or Julian calendar date
and time of day at quasi-Greenwich, where each day consists of exactly
86,400 SI seconds?

Gerard Ashton

-----Original Message-----
From: LEAPSECS [mailto:leapsecs-bounces at leapsecond.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Allen
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:07 AM
To: Leap Second Discussion List
Subject: [LEAPSECS] draft CPM report on UTC

Australia has released the content of the draft CPM report on UTC, one of
the two competing docuements that was on the table at the end of the WP7A
meeting earlier in this year.

http://acma.gov.au/Industry/Spectrum/Spectrum-planning/International-plannin
g-ITU-and-other-international-planning-bodies/wrc-15-agenda-item-114


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