[time-nuts] UTC and the speed of light?
mike cook
michael.cook at sfr.fr
Tue Aug 30 11:39:48 UTC 2011
Le 30/08/2011 09:40, Chris Albertson a écrit :
> How is the speed of light accounted for in the definition of UTC?
>
> In other words, how did they solve the conflict where on one hand we'd all
> expect two "perfect" clocks to "tick" at the same time but wether they do
> depends on the location of the observer?
I found this interesting document relating to frequency offsets needed
to be applied to clocks depending on their location.
http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/1846.pdf
I would expect that all clocks contributing to TAI would have equivalent
corrections.
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