[time-nuts] TIME AND SPACE Measuring Instruments from the 15th Century to the 19th Century

Available from my book collection to Time Nuts: TIME AND SPACE Measuring Instruments from the 15th Century to the 19th Century ** Guey, Samuel and Henri Michel ** *Published

Re: [time-nuts] Future of Time splinter meeting atAmericanAstronomical Society

Hello All, I read some of the material. Some of it makes it sound that the proposal is so earth-shattering and mind-bending that no mere mortal can understand what it means. So, are they talking about basing it off of a physical phenomena, like one of the atomic clocks at NIST or something like

Re: [time-nuts] Future of Time splinter meeting atAmericanAstronomical Society

The proposal is that UTC no longer be tied to the rotation of the Earth. If UTC is decoupled from leap seconds, presumably to make things easier for some activist group, then the rest of us will have to go back to GMT. We inhabit the Earth, not some computer simulation. Bill Hawkins -Origin