In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >Concluding the report is Resolution 6 in which the CCTF declares what >UT1 is and is not, what UTC is, and what a time scale is in a fashion >that directly contradicts the 1976 IAU definition of time scale.
Its not unreasonable to expect somebody with "Time" and "Frequency" in their name had a better grasp of that, than somebody with "Astronomy" in their name, is it ? >In particular, resolution 6 makes it plain that the count of days in a >calendar and the subdivision of those days is not a time scale if >those days are measured by astronomical means. Given that the SI second is based on quantum mechanics, that can hardly surprise anybody. >In short, that history, tradition, law, and common public perception >about what time is have been wrong. In other words: Just like Einstein proved Newtons mechanics wrong. It's called "Scientific Progress". You should try it. -- 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
