[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Dec 31 09:42:55 EST 2008
In message <1230733996.495b82acce1c9 at webmail.unb.ca>, "Richard B. Langley" writ
es:
>iii) The introduction of the satellite Doppler technique (Transit) to help in
>establishing the BIH meridian; the Doppler datum turned out to have a different
>longitude origin.
>iv) Misalignment of the series of WGS reference meridians with that of BIH.
So which datum is used for the zero meridian, which defines the UT* family
of timescales ?
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