[154383] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Jul 3 12:59:03 2012
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:58:00 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> said:
> Actually, GPS time is pretty ugly mathematically, as it has to make
> relativistic corrections for time dilation due to speed of the satellites
> and for gravity-well dilation (which are in opposite directions).
That's how GPS _calculates_ the time, but "GPS time" (i.e. time as
reported by GPS) is a constant offset from TAI (TAI - UTC as of 1980).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
