[time-nuts] Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 12, Issue 15

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Thu Jul 7 08:09:23 EDT 2005


At 07:11 AM 7/7/2005, Mike S wrote...
>To satisfy the pedants out there, UTC is not stepwise (or is time quantum?), and does not change by integral seconds; it is continuous. It is the _offset_ from UT1 which is stepwise integral seconds.

That should of course read "_offset_ from TAI" (to keep UTC closely linked to UT1).





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