On Jan 8, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
It sounds to me like BIPM ought to make an Internet service available which will deliver UT1 to astronomers in a timely fashion ?
Not sure BIPM is necessarily the appropriate agent, but otherwise agree 100%. Perhaps we should seek other areas of agreement rather than continually focusing on issues in hot debate. Both this and the extended leap second scheduling represent improvements to infrastructure that would also support market-based decision making about civil time issues in general. The current timekeeping landscape is simply too sparse to create significant emergent behavior.