Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_PHK.FREEBSD.DK>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:13:09 +0100

In message <038FB18B-CD13-4AB6-BDFC-7995B92954F9_at_noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>On Jan 8, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> As I understood it, it was mainly that TAI is a post-factum
>> "postal" timescale.
>
>One is left pondering the fact that UTC is now (and would remain
>under any changes I've heard suggested) a time scale based on TAI.
>What magic makes one acceptable and the other not?

I didn't say I thought the protest against more widespread use
made sense, I merely tried to relay it faithfully.

I does sound consistent with previously mentioned old fashionedness.

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