On Thu 2019-01-31T18:19:58-0500 Arthur David Olson hath writ:
Having stumbled across a copy of the educational film "About Time," I can correct the quotations that kick off the README file; the diffs should be attached.
Aha, it is online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__emnxC2Gc
! "Where do I set the hands of the clock?" -- Les Tremayne as The King ! "Oh that--you can set them any place you want." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist (from the Bell System film "About Time")
This is particularly marvelous because during the production of that film the BIH was deciding to re-set all of its atomic time scales in a fashion as arbitrary as the dialog such that the values of all their atomic time scales (including A3 which became TAI) were (UT2 - AnyBIHatomicTimeScale) = -1.4123 s at the epoch 1961-01-01T20:00:00 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/taiepoch.html Even more marvelous because that value of UT2 was reset a year later. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m