On Sun 2017-10-15T18:59:31+0000 Michael.Deckers via LEAPSECS hath writ: > Thank you for these interesting primary sources!
The more I reflect on this the more I realize that Nicolas Stoyko attended and took notes on many of the astronomy/time/radio meetings during the 1950s and 1960s. Lots of the history of who said what when is in the opening sections of issues of Bulletin Horaire, and detailed in a way that is not typically found in the official proceedings. The 1955 meetings are interesting because atomic time was a thing, but atomic timescales were not yet a thing anyone had done, and Ephemeris Time was a thing that a few people had done. So in all those discussions it is clear that Universal Time is unquestionably understood to be a measure of earth rotation. Speaking of meetings, ITU-R WP7A meets in 10 days and looks likely to discuss leap seconds. -- 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
