[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2005-01-19 20:19 UTC:
A resolution was proposed to redefine UTC by replacing leap seconds by leap
hours, effective at a specific date which I believe was something like 2020.
Thanks for the update!
Did the proposed resolution contain any detailed political provisions
Markus Kuhn said:
A resolution was proposed to redefine UTC by replacing leap seconds by leap
hours, effective at a specific date which I believe was something like 2020.
[...]
If this proposal gets accepted, then someone will have to shoulder the
burden and take responsibility for a gigantic
Markus Kuhn scripsit:
In my eyes, a UTC leap hour is an unrealistic phantasy.
I agree. But the same effects can be achieved by waiting for local
jurisdictions to change the existing LCT offsets as the problem becomes
locally serious. They've done it many times in the past and can easily
do so
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:
That *is* practical to implement, though coordination might be harder. On
the other hand, adminstrative areas that are near the edge of a zone now
could move earlier if they wanted. The world is used to time zones, after
all.
For that matter, Newfoundland could
Clive D.W. Feather wrote on 2005-01-20 12:34 UTC:
A resolution was proposed to redefine UTC by replacing leap seconds by leap
hours, effective at a specific date which I believe was something like
2020.
I may be wrong here, but I thought the leap hour idea did *not* insert a
On Thu 2005-01-20T13:39:58 +, Markus Kuhn hath writ:
That was certainly the idea of the BIPM proposal presented at the Torino
meeting.
As seen on my online bibliography web page, the proposal probably was
a slightly evolved form of this document
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Cowan writes:
Markus Kuhn scripsit:
In my eyes, a UTC leap hour is an unrealistic phantasy.
I think your critizism of it is just as unrealistic.
If 600 years down the road we have colonized the solar system, then a
large fraction of the population wouldn't
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Van Baak writes:
If one uses the rough but often-quoted figure of
one leap second about every 500 days then
a leap hour would be required on the order of
500 * 3600 / 365 = ~5000 years from now.
It's not a linear curve, it's quadratic. I found some
slides from
On Thu 2005-01-20T09:33:01 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
So it's safe to say we're talking millennia rather
than centuries, yes? I wonder where the notion
that it's just a few centuries away came from.
If there is something not clear in the presentation on
It's not a linear curve, it's quadratic. I found some
slides from the torino meeting where this was laid out very
well but I didn't save the URL, sorry.
Ah, yes, I forgot the quadratic term. Steve Allen has
a nice page at:
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
And his table shows
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes:
On Thu 2005-01-20T09:33:01 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
So it's safe to say we're talking millennia rather
than centuries, yes? I wonder where the notion
that it's just a few centuries away came from.
If there is something not clear in the
On Thu 2005-01-20T12:34:09 +, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
I may be wrong here, but I thought the leap hour idea did *not* insert a
discontinuity into UTC. Rather, in 2600 (or whenever it is), all civil
administrations would move their local-UTC offset forward by one hour,
in many cases
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes:
In the hopes of enlightenment for this list, but without the ability
to authenticate these draft documents, I offer the following:
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/SRG7Afinalreport.doc
Steve Allen scripsit:
If there is something not clear in the presentation on
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
I would be obliged to know about it.
It's very clear and useful. But:
At Torino the proponents of omitting leap seconds supposed that the
governments of the world
This is a very brief description of what happened at last October's ITU
meeting in Geneva.
A resolution was proposed to redefine UTC by replacing leap seconds by leap
hours, effective at a specific date which I believe was something like 2020.
This proposal was not passed, but remains under
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