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Neal McBurnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: These astronomical and navigation systems currently get inputs of time
: from all sorts of other systems and people: other instruments, other
: computers, sub-contractors, etc. Changing the meaning of UTC would
: lead to a cascade of systems that changed their own timescales and
: I/O formats, meaning that auditing the flow of time data between them
: would get more and more complex for a long time.
The changing formats should indeed be phased in. First, changes to
the data streams so that they can represent DUT1 > 0.9s. Next, fix
everything that breaks... Repeat. You're likely right, this will
take a long long time :-(.
Warner
