On Tue 2019-01-15T12:52:18-0700 Warner Losh hath writ: > This suggests strongly that those models of time are fatally flawed and > should be revisited.
I am probably the only person who has ever read all of Bulletin Horaire. https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/bhissues.html I can say that with certainty for the copies in the Lick library because I had to apply xacto knife to separate some of the pages which were not cut at the time of printing and never opened before I did. Over the lifetime of the BIH the staff were prone to be chatty and include transcriptions of the meetings which many times resulted in directions that the BIH must do more work in a different fashion. Those transcriptions point to the dramatis personae at those and other meetings, and to other documents. I can say unequivocally that the people who instituted leap seconds in radio broadcast time signals knew that the idea was fatally flawed. They also knew that they did not have the legal authority *not* to include leap seconds in the radio broadcast time signals, and they were not happy about the situation. They intentionally did not use UTC in their ongoing technical work. They intentionally avoided discussing the technical problems in public, redacted the transcripts of meetings that showed dissension, and arranged forced votes to produce statements indicating that various bodies agreed with the notion of leap seconds. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
