Talk:Time standard
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This article contains substantial amounts of text from http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html by Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Director, Time Service Dept., dnm@orion.usno.navy.mil)
As the work of an employee of a U.S. Federal Government Agency employee for that agency, without any other copyright notice that I can find, this should be in the public domain.
Also from this USNO article on the definition of seconds and leap seconds, which is also in the public domain by the same reasoning. The Anome
Added geoid link, and explanation why JD day starts at noon. -- Martin Vermeer
What are the dynamical time scale and coordinate time? Paranoid 20:54, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
