On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Note that I said "that's merely an artifact of how it is defined.", > not "The name 'Universal Time' has an unchangeable magic meaning."
And I suppose "Greenwich Mean Time" is completely fair game, too. And "Temps Atomique International" might designate a timescale created from an ensemble of clepsydra. And "GPS" could provide spatial and temporal coordinates derived from a System of Guinea Pigs. Universal Time is a concept predating the ITU whippersnappers. (Re)define some other timescale... ...especially since the whole idea appears to be to use UTC as a Nelson's Bridge to ultimately deprecate TAI. For precision timekeepers they appear to have remarkably little respect for the precise meaning of time. Rob Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
