[time-nuts] Why not TAI?

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Wed Aug 10 19:05:00 UTC 2011


At 02:40 PM 8/10/2011, Brooke Clarke wrote...

>There's been talk of a 19 second offset, but it may be 34 seconds, 
>see:
>http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/UTC-TAI.history

The mention of "19 seconds" was in relation to GPS time, which is 
probably the most widely used source, from which others are obtained 
via offset.

GPS - UTC = 15
TAI - GPS = 19
TAI - UTC = 34





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