[LEAPSECS] the big artillery

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2014-11-05T14:50:06 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:
> On Nov 5, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS <leapsecs at leapsecond.com> wrote:
> >  The symbol TAI(k) is defined in
> >      RECOMMENDATION ITU-R TF.536-2: Time-scale notations
> >  of 2003 with the text:

> At the time, I couldn't find anything beyond "Please don't call something
> you do TAI unless you are BIPM" :).

http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-TF.536/en

TF.536 is not in force.  It was suppressed on 2011-02-18
I think there might be some "get off my lawn" in the story behind that.

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