[time-nuts] Re: In Search of Lost Time. Harper's magazine article.

[Steve Allen]

On Sun 2023-12-24T10:21:39-0600 Steven Sommars via time-nuts hath writ:
> Article featuring our friends from NIST T&F.
> In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt (harpers.org)
> <https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/>

When Judah exclaims that his job is forecasting he echoes what
Armand Lambert of BIH at Observatoire de Paris said to Le Matin in 1939
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k586419k/f1.item
with the headline
What time is it? the impossibility of an exact response

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