[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Jun 18 18:49:23 EDT 2011


In message <9B2C1F26-FB26-4478-B39F-DEB38B63E9DF at batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten wri
tes:

>

>On 17 Jun 2011, at 18:19, Steve Allen wrote:

>>

>> The CCTF realizes that some misunderstanding exists regarding

>> the scope of application of the various time scales. It

>> stresses that TAI is the uniform time scale underlying UTC,

>> and that it should not be considered as an alternative time

>> reference.

>

>That paper claims that GPS time follows UTC (USNO) "modulo one second". I'm trying to think of any meaning of the word "modulo", be it from discrete mathematics, HAKMEM or anywhere else, with which that makes sense. Can anyone hazard a guess at the meaning that is intended?


T[gps] = UTC + N * 1 second

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