[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20080913165600.GE32041 at mercury.ccil.org>
            John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> writes:

: Zefram scripsit:

: 

: > (Having been born some 601.266 Ms after TAI's birth, I'll be celebrating

: > my personal gigasecond in two weeks time.  If anyone's keeping track,

: > you can put me down as an early eschewer of solar time, for those things

: > where I have the choice.)

: 

: If you enjoy high-end science fiction, check out Joan Vinge's _Heaven

: Chronicles_, which is set in an asteroid belt.  All times are in kilosecs,

: megasecs, and gigasecs.


Cool...  A gigasecond is around 31 years, a megasecond is ~11 days and
a kilosecond is about 17 minutes.  How would you keep such divergent
times strait?  Let's meet for dinner in about 200 kiloseconds?

Warner