David E. Ross writes: > Why require a UTC adjustment from TAI? If the data represent a > satellite orbiting the earth and the sub-satellite point on the > earth's surface is needed, the TAI is converted to UTC, which is then > converted through UT2 to UT1 and possibly to UT0 before obtaining the > sidereal time. Sidereal time then gives the current angle of the > earth's rotation for computing longitude.
Thus UTC is just a kind of timezone-like localization and leap-seconds belong in tzdata. -- John Hasler [email protected] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
