UTC vis a vis civil time

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Allen
A brief tour of time UT0 is angle (but there is more than one angle involved in its values) UT1 is angle (it is the rigorous quantity for earth rotation) UT2 is angle (albeit hardly used anymore) UT is angle (in some fuzzy pre-relativistic way) Sidereal time is angle The distinction between angl

Re: Forthcoming Meeting of ITU-R SRG Colloquium on UTC Time Scale

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Allen
On Tue 2003-02-11T16:43:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath writ: > The SRG has held several coordination and > technical exchange meetings to generate, > analyze and discuss alternative approaches to > reduce or eliminate the operational impact of > the leap second. The work to date has > produced a

Re: Forthcoming Meeting of ITU-R SRG Colloquium on UTC Time Scale

2003-02-12 Thread matsakis . demetrios
My understanding of the consensus for the front-running change option, if indeed there is to be a change, is that it would be to insert no new leap seconds after N years, where N is something between five and ten. However let me make it clear that I am not an organizer of this conference, am not a