[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Mean solar time is highly regular and elegantly simple.


Compared to our clocks it's too irregular.


> Civil timekeeping (even under the ITU proposal) is about the underlying

> diurnal period.


What does atomic time have to do with the position of the Earth?

I find it odd that you are arguing that the mathematical model of the
earth's orbit and rotation is more real than the observations from which
the model is derived.

Tony.
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