[LEAPSECS] A leap second proposal to consider -- LSEM

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <0859717C-0EB7-4AF8-BB4D-38F657144E25 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>"Universal Time" *means* "mean solar time". 


It probably did in the 1800's, in these days of Lego-toys on Mars,
most people I have talked to, find it utterly strange that a timescale
with "universal" in it, depends on one particular lump of rotating rock.


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