In message: <20081227134333.gm2...@fysh.org> Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> writes: : > Historians looking backward : >want to relate events worldwide and arrange them into coherent : >timelines. : : Yes, they'll want the Olson database.
How is the Olson database fundamentally different than the historical data that a future historian would have based on the measurements of the delta between what we call today TAI and UT1 times? It is just more data for them to swizzle into their calculations? Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs