On 2014-11-06 13:10, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote
in defense of the description by the German metrology laboratory in [https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/fachabteilungen /abt4/fb-44/ag-441/coordinated-universal-time-utc.html]:
Hm, indeed a sloppy translation of the original German text Die Einführung der Zeitskala UTC geht auf Vorschläge des CCIR (Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications) zurück which is more like "Introduction of the time scale UTC originates in suggestions made by..".
But the German text is equally wrong. The CCIR was tasked to find a common time scale for radio dissemination, but they did not "suggest" the underlying concepts of UTC. The concepts were developed about 1960 within the RGO, NPL, USNO and the BIH, at a time when time determination meant the reduction of UT0 to UT1, and a common reference time scale with rate close to UT2 was an enormous help.
But of course passion can't be replaced by anything else. Maybe money?
I do not see which point you want to make here. Michael Deckers. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
