--On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 20:03 +0100 Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/3/17 7:24 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> Umm, my proposal was to ignore the opinion of the ITU in this >> matter as in everything else. > > That doesn't work in all cases because there are often > applications that require that the clock time on a device not > vary from UTC by some set amount. I think they're fixing for > a big UTC leap second shindig in the next few years, anyway. Also, FWIW, UTC is a CCIR/ITU-R specification, not an ITU-T one. If one wanted to claim that we ignore the opinion of the latter, it would still be hyperbole, but perhaps understandable. If we were to start ignoring ITU-$ recommendations, a good deal of our Layer 1 and 2 infrastructure would stop working. I assume that is not considered a desirable outcome independent of the discussions we are having about time. john