Re: Predictable Internet Time

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

What governments decide, governments can undecide.

To take contribution to TAI as endorsement of UTC as ineluctable perfection
and thus the impossibility of changing it ever is a silly argument to make.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Joe Touch <[e-mail]> wrote:

> You might consider that most governments have already agreed to cooperate
> - by contributing their national clock info to TAI, accepting the
> TAI-averaged result, and accepting the ITU's definition of UTC.
>
> I see no good reason to create a new time reference that would still
> ultimately need translation to TAI and UTC anyway, esp. given the
> translation would be complex on the smear-day.
>
> Joe
>
> On 1/3/2017 11:46 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> wrote
>
>> On 1/3/17 7:24 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>>
>> Umm, my proposal was to ignore the opinion of the ITU in this matter as
>> in everything else.
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>> That doesn't work in all cases because there are often applications that
>> require that the clock time on a device not vary from UTC by some set
>> amount.  I think they're fixing for a big UTC leap second shindig in the
>> next few years, anyway.
>>
>> Eliot
>>
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> ​My analysis of the politics of the situation is as follows
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> * The decision makers are the governments, not the ITU
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> *​ The governments will do whatever their banking and broadcast sectors
> tell them.
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> * The banking and broadcast sections will do whatever Microsoft, Google,
> Apple, etc agree on provided that the transition is not going to be more of
> a problem than the status quo.
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> ​* If ​there is a non ITU proposal on the table that threatens to replace
> ITU as the place where the decision is taken that stands a chance of being
> adopted, ITU will prefer to co-opt it rather than lose the appearance of
> control.
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> We already have UT0, UT1 and UT2 and several other variants. The mapping
> from UT1 to UTC can be varied by committee.
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