[LEAPSECS] BBC radio Crowd Science

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jan 29 15:09:07 EST 2017


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In message <D7881CF5-7107-41DB-9EC1-E716C79E9B33 at lpl.arizona.edu>, Rob Seaman w
rites:

>Leap seconds are a means to an end. It isn't just astronomers
>who care about Earth orientation. Systems for navigation at sea, on
>land, in the air, and in space are dependent on the current definition
>of Coordinated Universal Time as exactly that,

In the venacular of today, this claim is an "alternative fact".

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