In message <[email protected]>, Ian Batten wri
tes:
>
>On 17 Jun 2011, at 18:19, Steve Allen wrote:
>>
>> The CCTF realizes that some misunderstanding exists regarding
>> the scope of application of the various time scales. It
>> stresses that TAI is the uniform time scale underlying UTC,
>> and that it should not be considered as an alternative time
>> reference.
>
>That paper claims that GPS time follows UTC (USNO) "modulo one second". I'm
>trying to think of any meaning of the word "modulo", be it from discrete
>mathematics, HAKMEM or anywhere else, with which that makes sense. Can
>anyone hazard a guess at the meaning that is intended?
T[gps] = UTC + N * 1 second
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