[tz] What's "right"?

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2020-11-13T15:51:49-0800 Paul Eggert hath writ:
>  It would hardly be worth the trouble, I'd think. It may well make
> sense, though, for some astronomical applications to do the conversion
> "correctly", when interpreting historical astronomical data.

For the past 25 years the range residuals to Mars fall inside an
envelope 2 meters big.  Similarly tight ranges apply for every other
planet that has had an orbiter or lander.  Trying to construct an
epemeris by adding in older observations does not improve the result,
it only adds noise.

Not even for astronomical purposes is the exact nature of the
time around 1970/1972 relevant.

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