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Re: (meteorobs) NAMN Notes: June 1998
KDitmer@aol.com wrote:
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> Just checking to make sure...UT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time? Which
> would mean East Coast is UT plus 5 hrs?
Yes.
UT is slang for universal time. There are various "universal" times
depending on just how many corrections are applied. From memory they
are UTC0, UTC1, UTC2, and UTC3. I believe the most common is UTC1, and
that is what is broadcast. The accuracy is better than 1 sec most/all
of the time.
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John Ohrt *** Toronto, ON, Canada *** mailto:johrt@ultidot net
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