In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Forbes writes: >A modest proposal: > >Instead of adding randomly-placed leap seconds to UTC or allowing UTC >to drift from UT1 etc, the timing community should just change the >second's definition from time to time as needed. That is, dither the >Cs transition frequency between 9,192,631,770 Hz or ,780 Hz annually >to make time speed up or slow down to match the earth's rotation.
That has already been tried (1958...1972) It was not a success. >The beauty of this method is that there are only a few hundred Cs >clocks in the world, This number is probably one or two orders of magitude to low, but a lot of them are telecom timers so they can be ignored. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
