----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bunclark" <psb_at_AST.CAM.AC.UK>
To: <LEAPSECS_at_ROM.USNO.NAVY.MIL>
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.
Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 08:28:31 PST