I can understand points 1 through 8, 10, and 11, but . . . What is gained by point 9 stating that UT1 should not be considered as a time scale?
Kevin Kevin K. Birth, Professor Department of Anthropology Queens College, City University of New York 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367 telephone: 718/997-5518 "We may live longer but we may be subject to peculiar contagion and spiritual torpor or illiteracies of the imagination" --Wilson Harris "Tempus est mundi instabilis motus, rerumque labentium cursus." --Hrabanus Maurus Warner Losh <[email protected]> Sent by: <[email protected]> 03/20/13 11:17 AM Please respond to Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]> To Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]> cc Subject Re: [LEAPSECS] drawing the battle lines On Mar 20, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Steve Allen wrote: > 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. A secular understanding of time is to a scientific time scale as a biblical understanding of origins is to scientific evolution theory. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
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