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"To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time" is just the best preamble ever.

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The only better thing is the organization being called "International Earth Rotation Service"

Someone should establish the Interplanetary Sun Orbiting Service.

>Someone should establish the Interplanetary Sun Orbiting Service.

I hope they have one of those logos with a bunch of weird freemason symbols that freak people out.

Oh boy :) I think that would come with IERS Tax.

You have to go to the ends of the earth to cancel.

The real problem is finding the antipodal help desk without digging.

For many years, the title of the leadership role over the various precise time products at the USNO was "Director of the Directorate of Time"

Do they have an insignia or patch? Can we buy it?

"Director Earth Orientation Center of IERS Observatoire de Paris, France"

Even the titles are sci-fi.

“Time Lord” could have been used instead of Director. At least once. Please.

Being located in Paris, it would have to be "maître du temps".

Maybe shorten it to Maître d'

Master of Time. One of the Masters of the Universe.

Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams novel.

It’d fit right into Thief of Time by Pratchett - the monks literally measure and distribute time.

Or XKCD. I love patch day.

They should call themselves Time Lords

Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.

For those who need more context of who the Time Lords are

The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In-universe, they hail from the planet Gallifrey and are stated to have invented time travel technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Lord

For further context, Doctor Who is a member of the species.

I think if we're being pedantic, the character's name is "The Doctor". The TV show is named "Doctor Who" but the character doesn't call themself that and a name is what something is called.

[Edited to avoid assigning a gender to a character who has had different genders]

I wasn’t being pedantic, I was (as per my words), providing further context. Anyone who has watched the show knows these things, they are basic information from it. My post and the one I replied to are (obviously) for people who know close to nothing about it, and those people won’t know who “The Doctor” is, the point was to make it clear it’s the main character.

Also, not only is “The Doctor” not the character’s real name, they have been called “Doctor Who” multiple times, including in credits, so you pedantry isn’t even right.

https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-name-debate-settle-explain...

And, I think, the last of them remaining.

The Master always comes back, of course. They're such perfect frenemies.

(Depends on the era of course, sometimes there are other timelords, sometimes not.)

Planetary Defense Officer [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Defense_Coordination...

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