[LEAPSECS] the big artillery

[Steve Allen]

Just after the WP7A activity in Geneva earlier this month
the CGSIC declared that leap seconds are unacceptable risk.
http://www.gps.gov/cgsic/timing/2014-resolution/

Their history neglects that initial need for leap seconds was to
satisfy the demands of the IAU and navigation community that the
radio broadcast time signals *must* provide Universal Time.

I wonder if the ITU-R process can go to its completion without
introducing any document which points out that to omit leap seconds
from a time scale called UTC is to redefine the word "day".

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