Hi I’d bet that you can do some sort of simple fit to +/- 3 days from today and get a reasonable estimate of the rate. Exactly what you would fit might vary over the year.
Bob On Jan 19, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/19/14 9:40 AM, David J Taylor wrote: >> From: Jim Lux >> Right now, the EOT is changing almost 30 seconds/day, which implies that >> the clock could be some seconds off during part of the day (although >> "true" at noon). >> [] >> >> 30 seconds/day? >> >> http://www.sundials.co.uk/pix/c/eot3.gif >> from: >> http://www.sundials.co.uk/equation.htm >> >> > > http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/sundials/equation_of_time.html > > > 5 Jan 5.2 minutes > 6 Jan 5.7 minutes > > 30 seconds in a day.. > > The total variation over the year is +/- 15 minutes, but the derivative is a > lot bigger at some times of the year (now) > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
