[TenTec] GMT vs UTC

demerson 74010.2230 at compuserve.com
Mon Mar 30 13:13:13 EDT 2015


As several have pointed out, GMT is effectively the same as UTC.

If we're being really pedantic, there is a subtle difference involving 
partial leap seconds, and the fact that the earth does not rotate at a 
precisely constant rate.  There is a very convenient and definitive 
explanation of different time systems (including GMT, UTC, TAI, UT0, 
UT1, UT2, and others) by Rick Fisher (KE8DH)  of the National Radio 
Astronomy Observatory at
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html .

      73
                 Darrel, aa7fv.


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