[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Said Jackson saidjack at aol.com
Fri Jul 15 04:45:06 UTC 2011


Some vendors gps receivers cannot handle leapseconds properly, so they may be pushing to fix the problem this way ;)

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 15:51, "iovane\@inwind\.it" <iovane at inwind.it> wrote:

> 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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