On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Matsakis, Demetrios > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to take the opportunity to ask this crowd what they think of the >> statements below: > > What I think is that the subject of this message is an inaccurate depiction > of the situation. > > The proposal from the Torino meeting in 2003 was to “evolve from the current > UTC Standard by transition to Temps International (TI)”. UTC would not be > renamed, rather another time scale would be created. UTC itself could remain > for backwards compatibility. Since TI would be a new timescale different > characteristics would be fair game, including an absence of leap seconds. > The ITU would then simply recommend TI instead of UTC. > > Nothing would be renamed. Nothing would be redefined.
Nothing would change. Warner
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