Last month we had some Zen exchanges about time scales. This list exists because of repeated statements against "proliferation of time scales". Perl 6 is currently building its basis for time as TAI even though there is no chance that the implementation can conformk to what the BIPM means by TAI.
Engineers designing and building systems and bureaucrats who are specifying them do not have the patience to decode Zen koans. In the absence of clear direction there is little basis for objecting to the resulting chaos. IMHO what is missing is the equivalent of an IETF Best Current Practices document about time scales and their use by hardware and software systems. http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1818.txt What I would like to see is for the BIPM/CCTF and IAU Comm 31 to coordinate an effort and pick somebody to produce a BCP for the IETF on the subject of time scales. What sorts of things SHOULD be done? What sorts of things MUST be done? What are the NOTs? -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> 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 LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
