Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
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> There is NO WAY that ANY time unit can be divised that is BOTH constant and,
> at the same time, a simple and FIXED FRACTION of the day or the year (or
> month, week, fortnight, etc.). It is impossible because NONE of the time
> intervals based on motions of the earth is constant.
Hence the move from GMT (Earth-based) to UTC (atomic clock-based).
Jim
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