On 2023-11-26 06:59, Steve Allen wrote:
This week began the meeting of ITU-R WRC 23.
..and it ended on 2023-12-15. The ITU-R news channel
[https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2023-12-15-WRC23-closing-ceremony.aspx]
mentions a "key outcome"of WRC23:
" ∙ Endorsement of the decision by the International Bureau of
Weights and Measures
(BIPM) to adopt Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as the de
facto time standard by
2035, with the possibility to extend the deadline to 2040 in
cases where existing
equipment cannot be replaced earlier. "
It is unclear what this is intended to mean: endorsement of the CGPM
(not BIPM)
decision implies that UTC will be continuous (not "de facto standard")
from 2035 onward, so what "deadline" may still be shifted to 2040?
ITU-R continue their (and CCIR's) tradition of murky statements
about UTC.
Michael Deckers.
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