[fitsbits] Re: leap second alert

[Arnold Rots]

The USNO has a useful summary page:

	http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html

The Chandra Data Archive has a page on time, as well:

	http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/time/time_tutorial.html

Skywise wrote:
> I normally just lurk on this NG as I only have a passing interest in FITS.
> 
> But this conversation about time has been very interesting. Basically, I was
> unaware of the many different standards of time that there obviously seems
> to be. I was under the impression that UTC = GMT and that this time standard
> was the proverbial "it" when it came to precision time. I am apparently wrong.
> 
> Many types of time have been thrown about by their abbreviations (TT, TAI,
> TCG, TDB, etc...) and I was wondering if there's an online resource where I
> could learn all about them.
> 
> Thanx in advance. :)
> 
> 
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