Re: [LEAPSECS] NOT A cruel fraud!

From: Ed Davies <ls_at_edavies.nildram.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:42:08 +0000

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > TAI is specifically contraindicated as a time
> : > scale.
> :
> : > TAI is not currently recommended by its creators as a viable time
> : > scale.
> : >
> :
> : These claims are intellectually fraudulent. The archives in fact support
> : the opposite of what Mr. Losh contends.
>
> Actually, it isn't quite that cut and dried.

OK, so why is TAI contraindicated then?

I've been on this list since 2002-07 and not yet seen a good
argument against it.

We all know that it (and any other world-wide timescale) is
"postal" at the level of the time it takes light to cross a
moderately small room but for microsecond precision and looser
this is not an issue.

Ed.
Received on Sun Jan 22 2006 - 02:43:09 PST