Re: [LEAPSECS] the epoch of TAI, with no more doubt

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
  On 2019-01-20 17:19, Steve Allen wrote: Those pages are a response to Recommendation 2 from the second CCDS meeting held 1961-04-11/1961-04-12. At the CCDS meeting BIH presented an initial effort to integrate and compare all the cesium standards for which data were available, and BIH was

Re: [LEAPSECS] the epoch of TAI, with no more doubt

2019-01-20 Thread Steve Allen
On Sun 2019-01-20T06:22:58-0800 Tom Van Baak hath writ: > I'm curious how your findings compare with this random link I ran across [1]: > > https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/std_time_utc.html > > See especially section "1.3. UTC before 1961" It was 1959 July or August (recollections differ)

Re: [LEAPSECS] the epoch of TAI, with no more doubt

2019-01-20 Thread Steve Allen
On Sun 2019-01-20T15:15:54+ Michael Deckers hath writ: > On 2019-01-20 00:50, Steve Allen wrote: > > I took a closer read and cross reference of the relevant > > issues of Bulletin Horaire and finalized my web page. > > The epoch at which TAI was set is definitely 1961-01-01T20:00:00 UT2 > >

Re: [LEAPSECS] the epoch of TAI, with no more doubt

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
   On 2019-01-20 00:50, Steve Allen wrote: I took a closer read and cross reference of the relevant issues of Bulletin Horaire and finalized my web page. The epoch at which TAI was set is definitely 1961-01-01T20:00:00 UT2    Arias and Guinot say in "Coordinated Universal Time UTC:

Re: [LEAPSECS] the epoch of TAI, with no more doubt

2019-01-20 Thread Tom Van Baak
> The epoch at which TAI was set is definitely 1961-01-01T20:00:00 UT2 > > https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/taiepoch.html I'm curious how your findings compare with this random link I ran across [1]: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/std_time_utc.html See especially section "1.3. UTC