M. Warner Losh wrote: >I'd phrase these like so: > >UTC's 1970 and 1971 together had 63072001.999918 SI seconds (exactly).
That's not quite true. They had that many *TAI* seconds, but TAI seconds are not equal to SI seconds. TAI is an imperfect realisation of the SI second. UTC(TT) is a mildly interesting notion. >The TAI time scale ticked 63072001.999918 SI seconds (exactly), while >UTC ticked 63072000 "seconds" between 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC and >00:00:00 1972-01-01 UTC. UTC ticked some 63072000.107757997 seconds in that time. Of greater relevance is that UTC ticked exactly 730 days (as you indicate). So many nits to pick. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
