[LEAPSECS] Straw men

[Tony Finch]

Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

> Tony Finch wrote:

>

> > It used to be local apparent solar time. Then local mean solar time.

> > Then standard mean solar time. Then standard time with daylight

> > saving. The definition of civil time is evidently not fixed.

>

> One notes that TAI is not on the list.


Not yet, except for Android users running on GPS time :-)

Tony.
-- 
f.anthony.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes: Westerly, becoming cyclonic or northwesterly
later, 6 to gale 8, occasionally severe gale 9 in north Bailey and Faeroes,
decreasing 4 or 5 later in north. Very rough or high, occasionally very high
in Bailey and Faeroes. Rain or wintry showers. Good, occasionally poor.