Revised and rearranged. Decided a version number was prudent - v0.5 since I figure we're half way there. Reminder - the intent is to provide a scaffolding for characterizing any possible civil time standard (whether practical or not). Rob Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory --- I) Existence [Adopt an international (or intergalactic) civil time standard?] A) yes B) no II) Multiplicity [How many standards?] A) one B) many For each civil time standard: III) Locale A) restricted to Earth [projects or users, not necessarily hardware] B) other than Earth [e.g., Martian rovers] B) Solar system scope C) truly Universal IV) Synchronization [with underlying time standard(s)] A) Overloading 1) Single 2) Dual [e.g., UTC is synchronized to both Solar and Atomic scales] 3) Multiple [e.g., Earth+Mars+Atomic] For each fundamental standard: B) Phenomenology 1) Natural s) Solar i) apparent ii) mean iii) standard iv) daylight saving v) Sidereal b) Tidal c) Lunar d) Seasonal e) Planetary i) various 2) Physical a) Atomic b) GPS 3) Dynamical [roughly both] a) various C) Optimization 1) remain within tolerance (e.g., 0.9s) 2) minimize figure of merit (e.g., DUT1) 3) minimize uncertainty in schedule D) Method 1) steps (I'm tired of the word "leap) a) arbitrary size b) fixed size i) millisecond ii) second iii) minute iv) hour v) other 2) rates ("rubber seconds") 3) both E) Adjustments 1) discontinuity 2) time slice (e.g., UTS) F) Triggering 1) manual (e.g., reset a clock by hand) 2) automatic 1) adaptive as needed 2) sliding 3) fixed in advance H) Sampling 1) continuous 2) daily 3) monthly 4) annually 5) decadal 6) pre century 7) greater than a century 8) arbitrary 1) issued as table 2) issued as formula 3) implicit in method J) Residuals [e.g., DUT1] 1) None 2) Fixed 3) Monotonic 4) Periodic 5) Piecewise 6) Arbitrary K) Notification 1) as needed 2) daily 3) monthly 4) six months 5) annually 6) decade 7) fifty years 8) none needed |
- Re: decision tree for civil time Rob Seaman
- Re: decision tree for civil time Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: decision tree for civil time Warner Losh
- Re: decision tree for civil time Greg Hennessy
- Re: decision tree for civil ti... M. Warner Losh
- Re: decision tree for civil ti... Rob Seaman
- Re: decision tree for civil time Rob Seaman
- Re: Long term scheduling and bound... Ed Davies
- Re: decision tree for civil time Warner Losh
- Re: decision tree for civil time Rob Seaman
- Civil Time decision tree v0.5 Rob Seaman
- Re: Civil Time decision tree v0.5 Rob Seaman
- Re: Civil Time decision tree v0.5 Steve Allen
- Reference for spacetime metric... John H. Seago (contractor)
- Re: Reference for spaceti... Steve Allen
- Comments on Civil Time decision tree Rob Seaman
- Re: Comments on Civil Time decisio... Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Comments on Civil Time dec... Peter Bunclark
- Re: Comments on Civil Tim... Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Comments on Civil Time dec... Rob Seaman
- Re: Comments on Civil Time dec... Daniel R. Tobias
