[LEAPSECS] Consensus building?

[Tim Shepard]

> Some term other than SI-based minute/hour/day is needed. As another

> has stated, unlike TAI or UTC, SI seconds can be observed in other

> reference frames. Also, the SI brochure says nice things about UTC,

> without explicitly incorporating it into SI.  Thus it is not cleaar

> that an SI minute cannot contain 61 SI seconds.

> 

> Solar days occurred before anyone was able to, or interested in,

> measuring them.  Also, non-human animals and plants experience solar

> days without measuring them.

> 

> Gerry Ashton


How about "earth day", "earth minute", and "earth second"?

Seems a nice parallel to "mars day", "mars minute", and "mars second"
that was used by JPL for the probe missions.

And instead of "universal time", we can call the earth-tracking time
scale "earth time".


			-Tim Shepard
			 shep at alum.mit.edu