08 May 10 08:06, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> RN> What about the atomic clock?

 RW>> Is not a calendar, it's the US civilian time standard, which
 RW>> currently keeps time to within 1 second in about 100 million years.
 RW>> Its accuracy has been superceded by a newer, smaller aluminum ion
 RW>> clock that is said to not gain or lose one second in 3.7 billion
 RW>> years.

 RN> No, it isn't a calendar, but it is relevant to it.

In a very remote way, it is.

 RW>> An even more accurate clock is being built that is based on stellar
 RW>> time.

 RN> I can't wait to see that one.

I don't mind losing a second or so over a billion years. I'll never miss
it.

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