[time-nuts] GPS seconds conversion on an Arduino

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Sun May 14 17:46:47 UTC 2017


On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts
<time-nuts at febo.com> wrote:
>
> I wouldn’t expect floating point to enter into it.


The question here was about conversion to Siderial Time.   The mean
sidereal day is 23.9344699 hours but that is the MEAN.  The length of
the day continuously changes.  So depending on how accurate you need
to be this can use a LOT of 64-bit floating point math.


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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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