From: olsamkok@kakaik.pl   
      
   Maciej Woźniak wrote:   
      
   > On 11/2/2025 12:27 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:   
   >   
   >  > The orbital time of a GPS satellite is half a sidereal day,   
   >  > or 43082.04525 UTC seconds (measured on the geoid).   
   >  >   
   >  > The orbital time of a GPS satellite measured by a clock in the   
   >  > satellite is 43082.04525(1 + 4.4647e-10) SI seconds.   
   >   
   > Weren't you insisting, not so long ago, that there is no "UTC second"   
   > and UTC is applying SI second?   
   >   
   > Wasn't it one of those "irrefutable facts" of yours that time?   
      
   it's seconds, aka a number of atomic periods counted at the elevation of   
   the geoid. Not measure, but counted, registered. Fucking unskilled and   
   uneducated idiots, they think they measure time.   
      
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