In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>So "day" is a word referring to Earth Rotation? As a first order approximation, the same way a year is a first order approximation to earth orbital position. Poul-Henning PS: I read an interesting note recently about how the fact that years have varying lengths have become an issue for determining the "official" half-life of long lived radioactive isotopes: Many geological methods just counted years, but hadn't considered how long those years were. -- 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
