On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote: > The UT1 second is 2pi/86400 times the reciprocal of the angular velocity > of the Earth. The units for this quantity are just seconds (because angles > are dimensionless), or if you want to be more explicit, seconds per > 2pi/86400 radians. >
... which I think is the clearest definition I have heard so far. Note that "seconds" are also a unit of angles, so UT1 seconds being a measure of angle is not strange. Thank you, Tony. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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