----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bunclark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] what should a time standard encompass?
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > > > > > Then split off UTT (or what have you), which keeps the old UTC definition, > > and let civil time (outside the U.K. at least) conform to the new UTC > > definition. > I like the idea of the UK being the only place with accurate clocks. > > > > Astronomers probably howled when it was proposed to split off the civil > > month from the motion of the Moon, too. Civilization, however, survived. > Naw, we'd already invented Dynamical Time for Lunar Theory. > > Pete.
