[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Zefram wrote:

> Tony Finch wrote:

> >

> >Oh, do tell, where will you get your GMT reference from?

>

> If I were doing it, I would take the DUT1 projections from IERS Bulletin

> A <ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/ser7.dat>, interpolate between them,

> and add the resulting DUT1 onto a UTC clock that is synchronised by NTP.

> At the millisecond level this should provide a satisfactorily smooth

> approximation of UT1.


Thanks for the informative explanation, but GMT is not and was not UT1.

Tony.
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