Clocks worldwide have always kept time-of-day. Astronomers are the canaries in the coal mine in this situation. That astronomers will incur great expense and require great effort to fix what ain't broke *does not* imply that everybody else is somehow off the hook.
It is this unprecedented proposal to move away from time-of-day that is demanding everybody - not just astronomers - go to inordinate lengths. Also "sounds like" is not a coherent engineering plan. No community - not even the atomic timekeepers themselves - have invested appropriate resources in investigating the implications of and mitigation required by this proposal. Rob Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory -- On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Peter Vince wrote: > It sounds like the astronomical community have the systems in place to deal > with the erratic rotation of our planet, can they not just leave the rest of > us to have a simple timescale - save us all going to inordinate lengths and > expense? > > Peter Vince _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
