> > Another way to state the underlying requirement is that calendars count > integral days. Points awarded for anybody who can make this work for some > definition of day that does not remain stationary with respect to mean solar > time.
It doesn't currently remain stationary with respect to mean solar time: that's why we have leap seconds. Your argument seems to be that there's something magical about max |DUT1| being ~1s, which wouldn't be satisfied if it were ~10s or ~100s or ~1000s. Why is 1s acceptable and 10s not? When UTC was first confected, the bounds weren't defined like that. ian _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
