Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Steve Allen <sla_at_UCOLICK.ORG>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:44:21 -0800

On Mon 2006-01-16T12:11:04 +0000, Michael Deckers hath writ:
> UTC (since 1972) is a disseminated timescale that is equal to TAI
> except for additional date and time codes transmitted with the
> signal. These codes indicate the values of TAI - DTAI for each
> full minute of TAI - DTAI.

Now I am confused.

By my reading of the documents, ITU-R did not define DTAI until the
most recent revision of TF.460 in 2002. DUT1 had been defined since
very early on.

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