On 29 Apr, 2015, at 18:01 , Mike Lawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, what I take from this is, 1) UT1 (and hence UTC) is based on the 
> International Reference Meridian, not the Prime Meridian (Greenwich).  2)  
> “True” GMT (if the mean sun can accurately be measured and predicted by 
> formulae, which has its own set of problems and error bars) lags UT1 by about 
> 0.36 seconds; but it doesn’t really matter, since the whole world is now 
> based on the IRM.

That's correct except that I don't think the 0.36 seconds is
seconds of time, it is angular seconds.  That would be a
24 millisecond time difference.

Dennis Ferguson
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