[tz] What's "right"?

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2020-11-12T18:04:08-0500 Brooks Harris hath writ:
> Notice in Rec 460 it says:
>
> B International atomic time (TAI)
> .... It is in the form of a continuous scale, e.g. in days, hours, minutes
> and seconds from the origin 1 January 1958 .....

In documents submitted to meetings of CCDS this nomenclature was
pointed out as inadequate and misleading, but there was no agreement
on a better description.  The actual alignment of atomic time with
universal time is possible to extract from issues of Bulletin Horaire.

https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/taiepoch.html

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