[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 51, Issue 10

[Finkleman, Dave]

Good work, Tony.   I was too lazy to look up all of the references.

With respect to the original list of definitions:   IMO they are correct
-- because they are definitions!   That a minute is 60 SI seconds except
when there are 61 applies to some other kind of minute than an "SI
Minute."   I am not a relativist, but the comment that alluded to
everything being associated with a reference frame is on the mark.  I
believe that the SI second is defined at sea level in an Earth Fixed
reference frame.  So, that part is important -- for those who work at
that level.  And those are the ones we are looking out for.  

Dave Finkleman
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