[LEAPSECS] the big artillery

[Tony Finch]

Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net> wrote:

> For example, the Standards of Fundamental Astronomy subroutine iauDat
> provides the delta between TAI and UTC, and the source code comments say
> "UTC began at 1960 January 1.0 (JD 2436934.5) and it is improper to call
> the function with an earlier date." In as much as UTC attempted to track
> UT2 in the 1960s, I would regard 1960 January 1.0 as the dividing point
> between proleptic UTC and UTC, and I would regard proleptic UTC as
> synonymous with UT2.

Does anyone know where SOFA iauDat got its data for 1960 from? Because
that predates the USNO table.

Tony.
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