[LEAPSECS] How good could civil timekeeping be?

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Steve Allen wrote:

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> http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660020453_1966020453.pdf


Thanks for this link. I was previously a bit put off by its length but I
can probably get it into comfortably readable form without killing too
many trees :-)


> For a shorter version see Seidelmann's writeup in

> Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac,

> University Science Books, 1992


Not the more recent edition?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1891389459/


> For another insider's view see the book by Audoin & Guinot

> The Measurement of Time: Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock


I have a copy of this. Also "Splitting the Second: The Story of Atomic
Timekeeping" by Tony Jones (IoP publising) is a nice accessible overview.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0750306408/

Tony.
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