[tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

[dpatte]

Thanks Michael. Its nice to see the draft. Of course this has been proposed before and no firm decision was made then.
 
Whatever they decide, I see UTC is an unfortunate but fair compromise between SI standard length seconds, and keeping our digital clocks close to being in sync with the variable length seconds of UT1.



----- Original Message -----
 From: Michael H Deckers [mailto:michael.h.deckers at googlemail.com]
 To: "dpatte" <dpatte at relativedata.com>, <tz at iana.org>
 Sent: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 20:15:25 +0000
 Subject: Re: [tz] New Yorker article on David Mills and NTP

 
    On 2022-10-04 19:01, dpatte via tz wrote:


> I follow numerous astronomy lists, and there is serious discussion at the IAU (International Astronomical Union) to get rid of leap seconds altogether, and possibly replace them by something else, perhaps leap minutes (or even leap hours) - making them far less common. I believe they expect to make a decision soon, though they have been discussing it for years and had planned to make a decision 2 or 3 years ago.


    The BIPM is now in charge, and the CGPM on 2022-11-15..18
    in Paris will vote on the proposal D on pages 7..8 and 23..24 in
[https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/66742098/Draft-Resolutions-2022.pdf/2e8e53df-7a14-3fc8-8a04-42dd47df1a04]

    Michael Deckers.

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