On Fri 2020-11-13T18:25:30-0800 Guy Harris hath writ:
For what it's worth, the Wikipedia page for Coordinated Universal Time:
Is not consistent with the original source documents. The wikipedia article is consistent with some historical summaries. Authors of those summaries did not respond when I pointed to the original sources and asked where they supported the summary. When a senator, prime minister, or general asks their national time service bureau if they can tell what time it is, the staff of the time service bureau say "Yes." They do not point the bureaucrats at documents like Bulletin Horaire, Circular D, and now Circular T which exist in order to document how wrong the time service bureau was last month and which contain the clues about how staff at other time service bureaus disagree with the way that their national laboratory has been determining what time it is. -- 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