> 2. At the higher "user-friendly" level, rubber duckies like the one I'm
> about to build take this fancy non-Earth-rotation-based "techie time"
> as input and produce old-fashioned Earth orientation time on output,
> or more precisely produce a synthetic timescale that is rubberized to
> pass as an acceptable approximation of the Earth's true position in
> the heavens relative to the gods. Use *this* time for civil/social
> purposes, i.e., to tell grandmothers when to go to church, don't make
> them switch to Earth-decoupled time.
So do that then. Use whatever "techie time" you deem acceptable. Implement the
conversion in C/fortran/python/verilog/whatever. Display the result on your
duckie. Problem solved. Don't much see the issue.
regards,
Fred
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