In message <[email protected]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:
>In message: <[email protected]>
>            Zefram <[email protected]> writes:
>: >                                         Historians looking backward  
>: >want to relate events worldwide and arrange them into coherent  
>: >timelines.
>: 
>: Yes, they'll want the Olson database.
>
>How is the Olson database fundamentally different than the historical
>data that a future historian would have based on the measurements of
>the delta between what we call today TAI and UT1 times?  It is just
>more data for them to swizzle into their calculations?

In addition to the Olsen database, the book "Calendrical Calculations"
is probably required.

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