In message , Harlan Stenn writes:
>Warner, I think your position is only valid form the point of view that
>says a timescale can only be used to count fixed-length seconds.
That is not really what timescales are about.
Timescales, as concept, are for communicating unambiguously the
duration of t
(Found unsent in my Drafts folder...)
Warner Losh writes:
> I think the real reason that UT1 shouldn't be considered a time scale
> is that it is based on not an imperfect realization of a fixed length
> second, but rather an imperfect realization of a variable (measured by
> oscillations of a fi
