[LEAPSECS] civil-solar correlation with TI

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20081227.192406.1683994734.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes

:

>In message: <20081227134333.GM2263 at fysh.org>

>            Zefram <zefram at fysh.org> writes:

>: >                                         Historians looking backward  

>: >want to relate events worldwide and arrange them into coherent  

>: >timelines.

>: 

>: Yes, they'll want the Olson database.

>

>How is the Olson database fundamentally different than the historical

>data that a future historian would have based on the measurements of

>the delta between what we call today TAI and UT1 times?  It is just

>more data for them to swizzle into their calculations?


In addition to the Olsen database, the book "Calendrical Calculations"
is probably required.

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