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Re: [art] Predictable Internet Time

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 28 March 2017 21:43 UTC

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On 3/28/2017 12:16 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
>> With a suitable definition, PIT could create a condition in which it would
>> only take a decision by one major government to force a change on the
>> astronomers. The commercial advantages of PIT over UTC are obvious - fewer
>> things are going to break for no good reason. That is an argument that
>> every politician is willing to listen to.
> Do we have this much influence?  If we do, why not just... lobby for
> fixing UTC and creating an TAC (tempt astronomique coordiné) to serve,
> for astronomers, the function that UTC serves today.
We don't need TAC; we already have UT. IERS already broadcasts the
UTC-UT1 delta.

Joe

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