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That part is easy: you just compare it to local solar noon. Earth's rotation is considerably more accurate than this clock's target. For more info about the nu
by pcl 12y ago
That part is easy: you just compare it to local solar noon. Earth's rotation is considerably more accurate than this clock's target.
For more info about the number of seconds in a solar day, see this awesome Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
- stromgo 12y agoFor more info about the number of seconds in a solar day, I would rather recommend the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Apparent_solar_time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Apparent_solar_time . The Leap_second article discusses a much smaller variation (~2 ms) on top of the big cyclic variation (~20 s).