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Letter: Letter

Published 13 December 2003

From James Wimberley

One reason why time should stay based on atomic clocks is space exploration. For the solar system, relativistic effects must be tiny between planets, and it is absurd to change the standard because the Earth’s orbit has palpitations. Far better to count seconds from an arbitrary baseline and let each planet define its own days and years.

Strasbourg, France

Issue no. 2425 published 13 December 2003

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