From: Mark Calabretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:15:09 +1100
> 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. Yes. TAI was recoverable from the UTC that existed prior to 1972, but the math wasn't a simple addition... Warner
