In message <[email protected]>, Nero Imhard writes:
>On 2012-01-09, at 20:42, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> It can easily be argued that if you need UT to better than 1s, you
>> should use one of IERS's UT products and you will have five years to
>> make the fix.
>
>This is the arrogance I mentioned earlier. What good is a definition
>(that of UTC being a good approximation of UT) if you can't rely
>on it?

Uhm, we seem to have lost context:  If the definition is changed, you
get 5 years to switch to a timescale with a usable definition before
the change takes effect.

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