WFC: Year-2000 issue

[Arnold Rots]

I don't think those issues cannot be worked out, since my proposal
only addresses one limited general issue.  But if the consensus is
to leave it out, then all references to time systems (including the
"Z" option) should be deleted from the proposal.

  - Arnold Rots

> Still, I do not believe that either Gregorian or the UTC should be
> mandatory in the Y2K proposal.  The more complete "TIMESYS" solution
> from Arnold Rots deserves consideration, but I do not believe that the
> detailed issues involved in "TIMESYS" can be worked out and approved
> before Y2K.
> 
> The original Bunclark proposal adequately solves the immediate Y2K
> problem and should be adopted without significant.  The status quo of
> other temporal ambiguity issues should remain and be considered
> separately in order not to jeopardize the urgently needed fix to FITS.
> 
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