[time-nuts] Re; New Wrist watch

[Don Latham]

Oh Boy. Just occurred to me; what reference is used in the Tardis????
Don

Tom Van Baak
>> Bob;
>>
>> Being this is Time-Nuts and all, shouldn't you be using UTC anyway? ;)
>>
>> Rich
>
>> He's making a joke - If you are traveling across time zones, why not
>> just set it to UTC and be done with it?  :-)
>>
>> David
>
> Ah, "done with it" you say? No, that only begins a whole new set of
> problems. Setting to UTC begs the question: what time frame are you in
> and whose definition of a second is your watch counting.
>
> Traveling across timezones with a good clock brings you interesting
> problems, at the sub-microsecond level at least, due to earth rotation
> and latitude and due to relativistic effects of altitude and velocity.
>
> /tvb
>
>
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