On 28 January 2011 23:58, Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote: > - The length-of-day on Earth has never been 86400 SI seconds long. > > - There are two different kinds of timekeeping. > > - It is the attempt to pretend otherwise that is causing the friction.
This isn't primarily my discussion, but I agree with these three points 100%. Acceptable solutions - human-day (following the Sun) = 86400 human-seconds (not equal to SI-seconds) - human-day (following the Sun) = 86400 SI-seconds + an occasional fudge factor (leap seconds) - defining a scientific-day that is always 86400 SI seconds Non acceptable solutions - redefining the meaning of the human-day (such as simply removing leap seconds) There is certainly nothing whatsoever wrong with TAI that I can see. Stephen _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
