On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote: > > Mean solar time is highly regular and elegantly simple.
Compared to our clocks it's too irregular. > Civil timekeeping (even under the ITU proposal) is about the underlying > diurnal period. What does atomic time have to do with the position of the Earth? I find it odd that you are arguing that the mathematical model of the earth's orbit and rotation is more real than the observations from which the model is derived. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ SOLE LUNDY FASTNET IRISH SEA SHANNON: EASTERLY OR SOUTHEASTERLY 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4, BUT BECOMING VARIABLE 3 IN IRISH SEA. MODERATE OR ROUGH, BECOMING VERY ROUGH IN WEST SOLE AND FASTNET, MAINLY SLIGHT IN IRISH SEA. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
