Stephen Colebourne said:
Local time
* definition: local-time - the time-scale local to a region of the Earth
* definition: offset - the duration that local-time differs from the
locally recognised legal standard time-scale
Sorry, that's nonsense. By definition, that offset is always zero,
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Gerard Ashton wrote:
The point below should be
* definition: UTC-1972-day - a duration of 86399, 86400, or 86401 seconds.
On 2/2/2011 8:50 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
* definition: UTC-1972-day - a duration either 86400 SI-seconds or
86401 SI-seconds long
To be
Update including some comments sent earlier, and new entries on UTC
and local-time:
A star is used for a new or amended line.
General:
- these points of consensus exist to aid the understanding of leap
seconds not time in general
- the terms seconds, minutes, hours and days are overloaded
-
On 2011-02-04 00:32, Stephen Colebourne proposed the following
description:
- definition: TAI-2008-second - the same as SI-second for the purposes
of this discussion
The TAI time scale uses the SI second alright, but it is the
value of the SI second as realized on the rotating
The point below should be
* definition: UTC-1972-day - a duration of 86399, 86400, or 86401 seconds.
On 2/2/2011 8:50 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
* definition: UTC-1972-day - a duration either 86400 SI-seconds or
86401 SI-seconds long
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LEAPSECS
* definition: UTC-1972-day - a duration either 86400 SI-seconds or
86401 SI-seconds long
or 85999
* leap-seconds are added to UTC-1972 with the aim of keeping UT1 and
UTC no more than 0.9 SI-seconds apart
Leap seconds may be inserted or deleted, though so far there have only
been
On 02/02/2011 18:50, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
OK, so we've got a little bogged down in redefining what appear to be
well defined things, and whether a list like this should define things
anyway. I'll give it one more go, but sadly I don't have the patience
of Job if others don't also want
