Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Saying UT1 is unacceptable as a time scale is like saying John
> Harrison's descendants should refund the longitude prize.

I think a better analogy is saying 1/10,000 of the distance between a pole
and the equator is not an acceptable standard length.

Tony.
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