Ken Pizzini wrote: > Right, but in its way UT1 is "king" because that is the measure of > earth-position time which is used in the definition of our current > time standard, UTC.
UT1 might be "king" but TAI is the "parliament" and this is a consitutional monarchy. I guess that makes UTC the government, looking to everybody like it's in charge but actually kicked back and forward between the other two.