[fitsbits] Re: leap second alert

[Patrick Wallace]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Steve Allen wrote:

> FITS would surely like to be able to name a timescale which will be
> widely available far into the future.  Two years ago UTC looked like
> the right thing.

No it didn't.  That's why I proposed adopting either TAI or TT at
the time.


Patrick Wallace
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