[LEAPSECS] Nit-pick: SI second

[Warner Losh]

On 02/07/2011 12:10, Tom Van Baak wrote:

>> It is also why TAI's rate was adjusted in the 1990's to compensate 

>> for the red-shifted data that had been collected at NIST in Boulder, 

>> since it sits at about 5400' (1700m) above sea level (as well as 

>> other facilities not at sea level).

>>

>> Warner

>

> Are you sure you aren't confusing red shift (which has been

> a known factor since the 60's) with blackbody shift (which

> only arose in the 90's as clocks hit the 1e-15 level)?


I may well be confused between the two...

Warner