Re: [LEAPSECS] interoperability

From: Peter Bunclark <psb_at_ast.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:52:03 +0000 (GMT)

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Tom Van Baak wrote:

> between astronomical and atomic timescales.

Could we rephrase that "between geophysical and atomic timescales" ?
Astronomers measure it and have to compensate for it, not cause it.

Reminds me bitterly of the widely reported loss of Mars Climate Orbiter
being due to a confusion of metric and *english* units, like it was our
fault.

Pete.
Received on Sun Jan 08 2006 - 23:52:46 PST