Professional and amateur astronomers are not the only ones who need good
estimates of UT1.
I've been wondering about this for a bit. Do astronomers and
navigators actually want UT1 or do they want GMST? Since UT1 is
based on a mean sun, which I guess no one actually observs, it would
seem that
M. Warner Losh said:
1500 years ago, no one spoke English. Chances are the people that
deal with this problem in 1000 or 2000 years won't speak any language
recognizable to anybody alive today.
Why not? Greek and Latin, to name two, were spoken that long ago and are
recognisable today.
And
Steve Allen said:
The official time of the US for commerce and legal purposes is UTC(NIST).
The official time of the US DOD is UTC(USNO).
The official time of the Federal Republic of Germany is UTC(PTB).
etc.
The official time of the UK is GMT.
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On Mon 2006-01-23T11:08:29 +, David Malone hath writ:
As far as I can see from my 1992 edition of the Explanatory Supplement
to the Astronomical Almanac, UT1 and GMST were (defined?)
the relationship seems to have been changed to ones documented in
(Capitaine et al., 2000, Capitaine et
On Mon 2006-01-23T14:02:01 +, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
Steve Allen said:
The official time of the US for commerce and legal purposes is UTC(NIST).
The official time of the US DOD is UTC(USNO).
The official time of the UK is GMT.
Please distinguish between official and legal.
The
Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:
Why not? Greek and Latin, to name two, were spoken that long ago and are
recognisable today.
Indeed, and they passed through a far tighter bottleneck than anything
likely today.
Not even the most diligently destructive barbarian can
extirpate the
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Neal McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Rob Seaman wrote:
: I hope we can all continue this discussion in a more positive manner.
:
: It is the nature of email lists to be good at stimulating discussion,
: and bad at generating clear resolutions.
Be careful. The goals of the folk on this mailing list and the goals
of the wikipedia project are probably not aligned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
In particular, note the section Wikipedia is not a publisher of
original thought.
It is certainly possible for
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Steve Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: The legal time of the US is (in many more words) GMT.
: The officials who are charged by congress with the task of providing
: time provide UTC.
The legal time in the US is the mean solar time at a given meridian,
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:20:45AM -0500, Tim Shepard wrote:
Be careful. The goals of the folk on this mailing list and the goals
of the wikipedia project are probably not aligned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
In particular, note the section Wikipedia is
Rob Seaman scripsit:
The legal time in the US is the mean solar time at a given
meridian, as determined by the secretary of commerce
...and many may have seen Mr. Gutierrez shooting the sun with his
sextant out on the Mall in front of the AS Museum :-)
With all the words that have flowed
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