Overall he seems to make a good philosophical argument why solar time is
good for humans. But his conclusion seems confused.
"... let the airlines and the Internet companies use TAI".
Ah, the airlines already use GPS (TAI-like) for navigation, and "local
civil time" for scheduling, while the "internet companies" grapple with
TAI-like timescales, POSIX, and "local civil time" representations at
machine and human levels. There's atomic time and solar time and thats
the inconvenient truth that TAI v.s. UTC with Leap Seconds reconciles.
That's the whole point.
"In other words, let them simply stop adjusting for for leap seconds.
Let the atomic clocks become progressively more wrong."
Whoa! Hold the phone! What do you mean? Adjust TAI's frequency to match
Earth?!? Nobody anywhere is suggesting that! Of does he mean adjust the
count or labeling of TAI? Nobody's suggesting that either. That's what
UTC is.
"It seems to me we have our priorities backwards when we worry about how
to keep our everyday natural time in sync with our atomic clocks instead
of vice versa!"
Huh? I think he means the solar day ought to be the priority because its
more meaningful for humans, which I generally agree with. But this is an
argument to "keep Leap Seconds", not change TAI. He seems to have missed
the fact he himself makes earlier that there are two timescales.
Articles like that add confusion to the public discussion.
-Brooks
On 2015-03-11 09:44 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
Ted Folkman is a lawyer who blogs about international law
https://lettersblogatory.com/2015/03/11/letters-blogatory-opposes-abolition-of-the-leap-second/#more-20126
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