Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Mark Calabretta <mcalabre_at_ATNF.CSIRO.AU>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:15:09 +1100

On Fri 2006/01/13 12:32:27 +1100, Mark Calabretta wrote
in a message to: Leap Seconds Issues <LEAPSECS_at_ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL>

>So if asked for a definition I would say that "UTC (post 1972) is a
>representation of TAI such that ... (you know the rest)".

.. and I should have said that prior to 1972, when UTC had "rubber
seconds", it was not a representation of TAI but something else again.

Mark Calabretta
ATNF
Received on Mon Jan 16 2006 - 16:15:34 PST