[LEAPSECS] Letters Blogatory

[Tom Van Baak]

Rob,

Yes, it looks to me like the timestamps you extracted below are all based on a global synchronized atomic time scale and solar time has nothing to do with it. Isn't it cool that all this works just fine, regardless of the current angle of the earth wrt the stars? And it would all continue to work if leap seconds were abandoned.

/tvb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rob Seaman 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Letters Blogatory


On Mar 11, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Tom Van Baak <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote: 

The entire purpose of UTC is to provide a single timescale for all human-related activity.

Well…  ;-)

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