Re: [LEAPSECS] BBC - Leap second talks are postponed

From: Peter Bunclark <psb_at_ast.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:55:57 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ed Davies wrote:
> On the other hand, I rather snigger at the reservation of the
> word "universal" to mean time based on the Earth's rotation.
> It's all rather parochial but it is the established terminology.
Doesn't "Universal" hint at the join of the SI second and Solar Time?

Pete.

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> Ed.
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Received on Fri Nov 18 2005 - 06:56:52 PST