Oh Boy. Just occurred to me; what reference is used in the Tardis???? Don Tom Van Baak >> Bob; >> >> Being this is Time-Nuts and all, shouldn't you be using UTC anyway? ;) >> >> Rich > >> He's making a joke - If you are traveling across time zones, why not >> just set it to UTC and be done with it? :-) >> >> David > > Ah, "done with it" you say? No, that only begins a whole new set of > problems. Setting to UTC begs the question: what time frame are you in > and whose definition of a second is your watch counting. > > Traveling across timezones with a good clock brings you interesting > problems, at the sub-microsecond level at least, due to earth rotation > and latitude and due to relativistic effects of altitude and velocity. > > /tvb > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >
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