[fitsbits] Future of UTC
Clive Page
cgp at nospam.le.ac.uk
Fri Apr 4 07:29:52 EST 2003
>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
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