I see Terrestrial Time being expressed as a Julian Date quite a lot. What is the unit of that number if not "Day"?
Dennis Ferguson On 30 Oct, 2014, at 09:16 , Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote: > "Day" is a fundamental physical fact about a planet or moon. "Minute" is an > artificial concept. Its intuitive role as a fraction of a day takes > precedence over serving as a round number of equally artificial SI seconds. > There are two kinds of time that must be accommodated. > > Rob Seaman > NOAO > -- > >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >> >>> I wonder if the ITU-R process can go to its completion without >>> introducing any document which points out that to omit leap seconds >>> from a time scale called UTC is to redefine the word "day". >> >> You mean the same way leapseconds redefine "minute" by making >> them have the counter intuitive numbers of seconds ? > > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
