[LEAPSECS] Reliability

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Once more from the top, mean solar time is just sidereal time offset by a

> little bit to make up for the Earth lapping the Sun once a year.  Nowhere does

> humanity appear in the equation, just the Earth and Sun and Stars.


No, since an oscillator without a counter is not a clock.

Tony.
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