Comment Re:Leap Minutes (Score 1) 115
It's not the time scale that isn't corrected.
No. It's the time scale that isn't correct. We have multiple systems for keeping time. The expectation is that one of them aligns with the earth's rotation. Your proposal breaks the purpose of that time system since by its nature not only does it need to be corrected, but it always was corrected from its inception. UTC (the one being discussed here) was a direct successor to GMT (which was defined by the Greenwich observatory based on observations of the earth's rotation).
If you're doing something as complex as an asteroid occultation, which requires n-body orbital calculations, you can trivially include the actual Earth's rotation instead of assuming constant speed.
Indeed. Which is why they use UTC instead of TAI, the latter of which is actually constant. As I said if you have another application, use that. If you have another application that is sensitive to clock discontinuities then use TAI instead. Don't mess with the fundamental definition of time just because you're too silly to use the time system that suits your needs.