I just received the IERS Annual Report 2001, which reports on pp 43-44
on a survey about a possible UTC redefinition. Over a thousand
questionaires were sent out and 247 responses received in Summer 2002.
Results for the most critical answers:
Are you satisfied by the current UTC determination method with leap
second adjustment?
90% YES, 10% NO
Do you think it would be better to change the determination method of
UTC?
55% NO, 24% YES, 21% NO OPINION
Sounds to me like the entire idea of a UTC change is quite unpopular
among IERS users.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 08:31:07 PST