[LEAPSECS] TI incunabula

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAE273B8-7505-478F-9F71-934698C52569 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>Oh yeah!  I also heartily support Steve's implicit message here.   

>Rather than trashing one timescale, let's just simply complete the  

>proper system engineering started in the Nineteenth century and call  

>any such new timescale "International Time".


It has always seemed very pretentious to me, that a timescale bound
tightly to a particular rotating rock was called "Universal".

I can live with International Time as a name, but would far prefer
to have it be Terrestial Time, so it names the rock in question.

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