[time-nuts] Why not TAI?

[Jose Camara]

The clock animations at http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm are
great, but one has to pay attention to the note at top, saying they are all
based on your PC's clock, not actual time.  If your pc is off 5 seconds, so
will be all of those clocks.



-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of mike cook
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:02 AM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Why not TAI?


> MJD , Modified Julien Date is the above -2400000,5 to keep the numbers 
> down. This was recognised as a time scale by the IUT.  I think it is 
> now deprecated but is in common use.
>
> There are probably others.
>
Oops, typo.. It should be UIT or ITU and not IUT and I forgot the cavet. 
In general any exotic scale would have to be either created from scratch 
or calculated from the available TAI based scales as none are 
transmitted. Many web pages of course will give nice clock animations. I 
recommend tvb's.


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