Relating Time To The Earths Variable Rotation

Download or read book Relating Time to the Earth's Variable Rotation written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the beginning of the 21st Century, the timing community finds itself again facing a decades-old problem of how to synchronize a uniform time scale with time derived from the Earth's rotation. Atomic time is the basis for most everyday timing applications, However, time astronomically determined from the Earth's rotation is essential for other applications including navigation. The history of relating atomic time to the Earth's rotation is presented, including background information related to the current synchronization method of leap seconds.