Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
by fanf2 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:23PM
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Yeah, gravitational time dilation is about 1e-16 seconds per metre of elevation near the surface http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/index.htm so Boulder is about 1e-13 fast. The rotation of the earth is stable to about 1e-9 http://leapsecond.com/ten/ which is also about the same as the rate difference between UT1 and UTC (0.2 ms / 86400).
Re:Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
by sla29970 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:31AM
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During the discussions leading to the inception of the SI second the bigwig standards folks nixed the consideration of relativity, basically paraphrased as "If you physicists do not stop arguing about relativity we will never redefine time in a way that removes it from the astronomers."
But the size of the discrepancy between Colorado and London is far smaller than the discrepancy Leap Seconds are concerned with right?