(But not the famous one from Jonathan Swift!) Perhaps standard time and frequency broadcast stations could disseminate both UTC and TAI (or TI, if that is desired). Civil time would remain tied to UTC, but TAI (or TI) would also be widely available.
Consider, for instance, the audio stream from WWV and WWVH. Let the aspects of this audio stream that are more noticeable to human ears continue to convey UTC. Thus, the voice announcemnts (male voice for WWV, female voice for WWVH) would continue to announce, "At the tone, HH hours, MM minutes Coordinated Universal Time." Let the ticks marking the one-second UTC epochs remain as they are: 5 cycles of 1000 Hz from WWV, six cycle of 1200 Hz from WWVH. Continue to emphasize (by double ticks) those second markers that ITU-R Recommendation TF.460 requires to be emphasized in order to convey DUT1. But let the less noticeable (to human ears, at least) 100 Hz subcarrier tone be used to convey the new TI time scale rather than UTC. LF broadcast stations should probably continue to disseminate UTC, since they are used in so many consumer wrist watches and wall clocks. If there _are_ any currently unassigned bits in the WWVB data stream (there can't be many), then those bits could be multiplexed over several cycling one-minute "pages" of WWVB data to convey the current value of (UTC - TAI) [or of (UTC - TI)]. We need to widely disseminate BOTH UTC (beacuse it is, and should remain, the basis of civil time) AND ALSO a more regular time scale that lacks leap seconds (e.g., TAI). -- James Maynard Salem, Oregon, USA
