[time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Wed Jul 20 16:55:26 UTC 2005


At 12:32 PM 7/20/2005, Chris O'Byrne wrote...
>Mike wrote
>
>> They missed the event by 7 seconds instead of under 1. 
>
>A one second difference in UT1 does not correspond to a one second
>difference in the observed time of the eclipse in an atomic timescale
>... I now think that is wrong - I now think the ratio is more like
>2:1. I might run a monte-carlo simulation to see exactly what the ratio
>is.

So what's the problem? If you miss the eclipse the first time, just set your watch back an hour, then the eclipse with be 1/2 hour in the future and you get another chance. :-)

But the point is still made: 3.5 seconds vs. 1 second. 




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