[time-nuts] The future of UTC

[Javier Herrero]

With Bulletin C nr 42, a link to a questionnarie about it is added at 
the end (and I think that leap seconds and its convenience or not has 
been discussed lots of times in the list :)

 From Bulletin C 42:

IMPORTANT: After years of discussions, a proposal to fundamentally redefine
UTC will come to a conclusive vote in January 2012 at the ITU-R in Geneva.

This proposal would halt the intercalary adjustments known as leap seconds
that maintain UTC as a form of Universal Time.

The Earth Orientation Center of the IERS organizes a survey online with the
objective to find out the strength of opinion for maintaining or changing
the present system.

Link to the questionnaire:

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php?index=questionnaire

Your response is appreciated before 30 August 2011



El 15/07/2011 00:51, iovane at inwind.it escribió:
> Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that this matter has not yet been discussed among time-nuts:
> http://futureofutc.org
> > From the above website:
> A conclusive proposal to fundamentally redefine UTC is scheduled for a vote by the Radiocommunications Assembly of the ITU-R in January, 2012. The proposal will halt the contribution of so-called leap seconds to UTC after 2017, and will also terminate the requirement that time services transmit the difference between UT1 and UTC. If approved, UTC would no longer be useful as a type of Universal Time for most technical applications.
> Antonio I8IOV
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