On Fri 2006/01/13 12:32:27 +1100, Mark Calabretta wrote in a message to: Leap Seconds Issues <LEAPSECS@ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL>
>So if asked for a definition I would say that "UTC (post 1972) is a >representation of TAI such that ... (you know the rest)". .. and I should have said that prior to 1972, when UTC had "rubber seconds", it was not a representation of TAI but something else again. Mark Calabretta ATNF