[fitsbits] Future of UTC

[Clive Page]

>3) If astronomers have no control over the current process, why should
>   we assume they will have any more control over whatever process is
>   substituted?

Well if UTC were redefined to be the same as TAI (but for an offset fixed
for all time, or at least for a few thousand years until the next
leap-hour ;-) then there would be no problem, no matter how the ground
stations were operated.

>  The problem is
>that professionals in astronomy and elsewhere treat their clocks with
>a lack of care that would be shocking for any other standards of
>measurement.

I can't disagree with that.

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Clive Page   cgp at le.ac.uk