Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Ed Davies <ls_at_edavies.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:28:20 +0000

Steve Allen wrote:
> On Sat 2006-01-07T07:39:58 +0000, Michael Sokolov hath writ:
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>>http://ivan.Harhan.ORG/~msokolov/articles/leapsecs.txt
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> If I read it right you have reinvented Markus Kuhn's UTS as seen in
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> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/uts.txt
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/utc-torino-slides.pdf

That's my reading too, except that Markus proposed batches of
about 1000 UTS seconds either approximately 1.001 or 0.999 SI
seconds long which seems like a better idea to me.

Also, Markus wasn't proposing UTS as a civil timescale but just
for use within computer systems, etc.

Ed.
Received on Sat Jan 07 2006 - 12:28:40 PST