On Tue 2014-09-30T10:29:26 -0600, Warner Losh hath writ: > So you are saying that the UTC standard is so broken that you have to > invent your own, which is not standardized by any standards body[*],
Yes. That's what GPS did. That's what POSIX did. That's what IEEE 1588 did. That's what BeiDou did. That's what the ATSC did for US television. That's what Google did. I am not sure that ITU qualifies as a standards body. It does not have a two-interoperable-implementations rule like IETF. When ITU describes things that industry has already proved, it works. In the case of UTC with leap seconds ITU prescribed something which had never been implemented by time providers and time consumers. The drama of this next year is whether they will do that again. But I think the ITU is powerless in one regard. The nature of UTC has been a 50 year long flame war where various persons and international organizations have chosen to ignore what others have said about UTC. Unless all parties get access to some time scale that works for their needs I doubt that it will ever be possible to create a unanimous technical agreement that includes the term UTC. -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
