On Mon 2017-01-02T12:55:23 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ: > But since some of you are real picky about formal definitions, my > question is what to do about MJD -- is it UT1-based or it is > UTC-based? And if UTC-based, what's the right thing to do when the > day has a +/- leap second?
IAU hashed this out with multiple meetings in the 1990s finally coming up with 1997 resolution B1 http://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/IAU1997_French.pdf It gives a table of dates and numbers, and it notes that the intended time scale for the counting of days should be explicitly specified. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
