[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <DFF642C4-E47A-4E80-ADBC-7A8B4677C60E at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>While they are debating this, it is a mental model they have about  

>timekeeping that guides the discussions.  Their mental model clearly  

>must include the notion that mean solar time is dispensable - else  

>they wouldn't be trying to dispense with it.


Nobody is "dispensing with mean solar time", you will always be able
to calculate it if you want to.

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