Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-01 Thread Steve Allen
On Sat 2014-11-01T16:50:57 -0400, Athena Madeleina hath writ: > So days may come and go, but UTC with or without leap seconds meets > its definition just fine - for those who just think of it as a > universally agreed-upon time reference that's coordinated by timing > labs. It is not amibuguous i

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-01 Thread Athena Madeleina
So days may come and go, but UTC with or without leap seconds meets its definition just fine - for those who just think of it as a universally agreed-upon time reference that's coordinated by timing labs. It is not amibuguous if this universal reference coincides with UT1 to .9 seconds until 2020

Re: [LEAPSECS] the big artillery

2014-11-01 Thread Dennis Ferguson
On 30 Oct, 2014, at 12:12 , Richard Clark wrote: > Well, for historical and archival purposes Julian date nearly always means > traditional days, as in solar days. But for astronomical uses a fixed > unit, the apocryphal atomic day is implied. This means needing to know > delta T if you need to r