[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Mean solar time will outlast artificial clocks and the species that

> built them by a factor of something like 5,000,000,000 to 50,000.


Not really, because mean solar time is also artificial and can't exist
without mechanical clocks and telescopes.

Tony.
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