Re: [LEAPSECS] what should a time standard encompass?

From: Peter Bunclark <psb_at_ast.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:01:03 +0000 (GMT)

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote:

>
> Then split off UTT (or what have you), which keeps the old UTC definition,
> and let civil time (outside the U.K. at least) conform to the new UTC
> definition.
I like the idea of the UK being the only place with accurate clocks.
>
> Astronomers probably howled when it was proposed to split off the civil
> month from the motion of the Moon, too. Civilization, however, survived.
Naw, we'd already invented Dynamical Time for Lunar Theory.

Pete.
Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 08:01:23 PST