Becker had a lot of opinions about atomic time, and he laid out the pictures of just how bad things were. Note figures 4 and 5 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phbl.19830390302
Those show how the rate of TA(BIH) was way off as of the 1969 rearrangement that did not attempt to constrain the frequency of the new scale, and they show just how much the lack of air conditioning in the USNO clock house was messing up the HP units. Those artifacts of rate problems affect TAI forever inasmuch as they mean that the supposed 1958 origin and the actual 1961 origin do not correspond to the number of elapsed SI seconds in the value of TAI. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
