It's getting close to the time when WP7A will be deciding on the fate of leap seconds.
I am willing to agree that the underlying time scales of broadcast signals and computer systems need to be free of leap seconds. I am not willing to agree that civil time can drift from the sun. I also maintain that the "right" forms of the zoneinfo files already are proof of concept. They demonstrate that computers can have an uniform underlying time scale while still providing a civil time scale that has leap seconds. The technical issues are basically solved. Inspired by Seidelmann and Fukushima's pictorial form, I have been working on these http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html I'm not done with details and decorations, but the basic ideas are there now. What remains is for the ITU-R to choose the form of the future. -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
