[LEAPSECS] Computer Network Time Synchronization, 2nd Ed.

[Rob Seaman]

The best word is likely "epoch".  Just as "place" represents some complex political/geographical area.  A date is a range of times.  The endpoints of that range are defined by all the rules we've touched on.  Place and epoch are intertwined.  It is the coherent definition of the underlying timescale that is at risk.

Rob
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On Dec 8, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:


> Rob Seaman said:

>> But you did it yourself.  Birth certificates list both time and place.

> 

> Mine doesn't list time, nor do any of those of my family (who were born in two different countries, by the way, so this isn't just a UK thing).