Steve Allen said:
On Mon 2019-12-16T14:10:21+0000 Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
You take a Gregorian calendar (by default; in principle you could use Julian or something else) and use it to count *all* SI seconds, so that every day has exactly 86400 seconds in it. It works the same way as UT1, but without the unpredictable-length "seconds".
In 1968 between a pair of meetings the atomic clock and CCIR folks ascertained that they could not use that scheme in broadcast time signals,
*because* it drifts away from UT1, right? I'm not disputing that; I'm simply saying that it works in the same way, just using real SI seconds rather than sideral seconds. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646