Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:38:49 +0100

In message <43C103DD.7030905_at_edavies.nildram.co.uk>, Ed Davies writes:
>Wow, things have got really stirred up around here. Lots of interesting
>points but I'll just concentrate on one...
>
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Well, the BIPM doesn't really want anybody to use TAI, their director
>> said as much last year, and I can see where he is coming from on that
>> one.
>
>Since the usual response of the pro-leap second lobby to people
>who want a uniform timescale is "use TAI" this is significant.
>Do you have any information or references on why the BIPM director
>said this?

As I understood it, it was mainly that TAI is a post-factum "postal"
timescale.


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