[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jun 19 12:07:36 EDT 2011



On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Ian Batten wrote:


>

> 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?


fabs(fmod(UTC,1.0) - fmod(GPS, 1.0)) < 1e-6

Warner



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