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Division I Working Group on “Definition of Coordinated Universal Time”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2005

Dennis Dennis ,
D. McCarthy ,
F. Arias ,
W. Dick ,
D. Gambis ,
M. Hosokawa ,
W. Klepczynski ,
S. Leschiutta ,
J. Laverty  and
Z. Malkin
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The definition of UTC was implemented in 1972, principally to accommodate celestial navigation and follows recommendation 460 of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) in 1970. Since 1972 the use of electronic means to navigate has overtaken celestial navigation. This fact along with increasing public dissatisfaction with the possible disruption to modern electronic communications and navigation systems caused by the insertion of a leap second has called into question the current definition of UTC. An extensive review of the background and issues relating to the leap second can be found in Nelson, et al (2001).

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Transactions T26A: Reports on Astronomy , December 2005 , pp. 63 - 66
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

Nelson, R. A., McCarthy, D. D., Malys, S., Levine, J., Guinot, B., Fliegel, H. F., Beard, R. L., & Bartholomew, T. R. 2001 Metrologia, 38, 509CrossRefGoogle Scholar