The BIPM website has a few new tidbits related to UTC. They celebrate 25 years since the BIH was abolished, TAI was transferred from BIH to BIPM, and Circular T was started.
They also celebrate one year since starting the new "UTCr". And they have published the report of the 19th meeting of the CCTF http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/CCTF19.pdf in which there is a long discussion of the UTC shenanigans at ITU-R. Concluding the report is Resolution 6 in which the CCTF declares what UT1 is and is not, what UTC is, and what a time scale is in a fashion that directly contradicts the 1976 IAU definition of time scale. In particular, resolution 6 makes it plain that the count of days in a calendar and the subdivision of those days is not a time scale if those days are measured by astronomical means. In short, that history, tradition, law, and common public perception about what time is have been wrong. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street 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
