On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > Thus, no matter what, the Sun must peak at midday and it be night at > midnight, with adjustments to ensure that based on time-zones. Since > stopping leap seconds breaks that basic principle, it became > unacceptable.
Actually the sun doesn't peak at 12:00 except on rare occasions, and in many places it never does, so your reasoning is incorrect. > - TAI - simple incrementing number that is well-defined (although > clearly not everyone here will agree with that). TAI can be used into > the far future and the far past How do you map between TAI and UT in the far future and far past? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
