In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>There's a lot of overlap between timekeepers and astronomers. There's a lot of overlap between bioinformatics and ornitology. Was there any relevant point you were trying to make ? >The fundamental issue remains that atomic time and synodic time >are two different things. The IAU and CCTF seems to be absolutely clear on the difference: A) Atomic time is time. B) Earth orientation is geometry. The fact that we used to estimate time from Earth orientation does not give astronomers some kind of hereditary claim to forever control our timescales. -- 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
