Re: [LEAPSECS] trading time

From: Steve Allen <sla_at_ucolick.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:35:22 -0800

On Tue 2003-12-23T11:47:01 -0500, jcowan_at_reutershealth.com hath writ:
> That should make interesting work for lawyers and judges trying to decide
> whether TAI is a legal time scale.

That should be trivial in any country signatory to the Metre Convention.

TAI is the time scale of the BIPM, and in the US the use of the metric
system has been legal for over a century.

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