[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jan 12 03:30:33 EST 2014


In message <52D251B5.4060608 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:


>4. The origin of International Atomic Time is

>defined in conformance with the recommendations

>of the International Astronomical Union (13th

>General Assembly, Prague, 1967) that is, this scale

>was in approximate agreement with 0 hours UT2

>January 1, 1958.


I'm not sure if there is a connection, and if there is, which way
it might go, but that is also the (theoretical) time of coincidence
of all LORAN-C chains.

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