On Oct 3, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Rob Seaman wrote: > I'm taken by your mention of Hertz as the unit of TAI. That's an interesting > way to break the artificial symmetry between the two meanings of the word > "second". Might be some play there. The unit of atomic time is frequency, > the unit of civil time is angles, fractions of a day. Retire the unit of the > "second" entirely.
Wouldn't that be imperial ounces vs US ounces all over again? It would also break the conversion from the frequency domain to the time domain and vice versa. It is a quaint notion, but I don't think that dog would hunt. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
