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* Theory: Improve citation to Morrison & Stephenson.
Mention the 1972 UTC transition. See Steve Allen in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019770.html>.
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@@ -240,12 +240,16 @@ locations differ in LMT. Historically, not only did different
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locations in the same zone typically use different LMT offsets, often
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different people in the same location maintained mean-time clocks that
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differed significantly, many people used solar or some other time
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instead of mean time, and standard time often replaced LMT only gradually
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at each location. As for leap seconds, we don't know the history
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of earth's rotation accurately enough to map SI seconds to historical
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solar time to more than about one-hour accuracy; see Stephenson FR
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(2003), Historical eclipses and Earth's rotation, A&G 44: 2.22-2.27
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<http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.44222.x>.
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instead of mean time, and standard time often replaced LMT only
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gradually at each location. As for leap seconds, civil time was not
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based on atomic time before 1972, and we don't know the history of
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earth's rotation accurately enough to map SI seconds to historical
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solar time to more than about one-hour accuracy. See: Morrison LV,
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Stephenson FR. Historical values of the Earth's clock error Delta T
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and the calculation of eclipses. J Hist Astron. 2004;35:327-36
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<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JHA....35..327M>; Historical
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values of the Earth's clock error. J Hist Astron. 2005;36:339
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<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JHA....36..339M>.
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As noted in the README file, the tz database is not authoritative
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(particularly not for pre-1970 time stamps), and it surely has errors.
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