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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
