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Re: Navigation without Leap Seconds
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2008 Apr 18, 03:00 -0400
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2008 Apr 18, 03:00 -0400
Paul Hirose, you wrote: "Fixes will have a longitude error due to the discrepancy between the actual UT1-UTX vs. the predicted value. However, we tolerate greater error today. The almanac is tabulated in UT1, but most navigators simply use UTC because a few tenths of a second aren't significant in ordinary celestial navigation." It would seem that most everyone here is in agreement that there would be no real problem for celestial navigation if leap seconds are abolished. Does anyone disagree?? This has come up a number of times in the past ten years, and it's often suggested that celestial navigation would be crippled by the change. I've never thought that this would be the case. So does anyone defend the poor suffering leap second?? -FER --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
