On Thu 2003-01-30T22:05:51 +, Markus Kuhn hath writ:
> > But the question arises as to why the spec
> > can't easily be changed to indicate that it is per TAI day.
>
> As long as UTC is as it is currently, you don't want to do this:
But I think that the further answer is this:
Should it be dec
Markus Kuhn scripsit:
> I doubt that this is really the case. UCPTE is happy if it can guarantee
> that the grid time remains within 20 seconds of UTC.
What are the long-term guarantees?
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Steve Allen wrote on 2003-01-30 20:58 UTC:
> On Thu 2003-01-30T12:54:09 +, Markus Kuhn hath writ:
> > The UCPTE specification says that the grid phase vectors have to rotate on
> > long-term average exactly 50 * 60 * 60 * 24 times per UTC day.
>
> Obviously the grid frequency shift after leap s
On Thu 2003-01-30T12:54:09 +, Markus Kuhn hath writ:
> VERDIN phase tracking is perhaps a somewhat pathological case.
True, but I know of someone who built a household clock to use it, and
for someone living in a Navy base town during the early years of the
Reagan era that seemed like a pruden
Steve Allen wrote on 2003-01-29 20:53 UTC:
> On Wed 2003-01-29T15:05:59 -0500, John Cowan hath writ:
> > I was a little too clipped. If you know all the leap seconds, you can
> > convert a Unix-style timestamp to UTC reliably; if you further know all
> > the timezone changes, you can convert UTC t
