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|    Garth Dzhanaev to Paul B. Andersen    |
|    Re: Time is what clocks indicate    |
|    28 Nov 25 11:54:25    |
      XPost: sci.math       From: atz@vza.ru              Paul B. Andersen wrote:              > The SV clock will typically be microseconds off sync, but a number of       > monitoring stations will track the SV, and measure how the clock       > behaves, and calculate the correction polynomial parameters which are       > uploaded to the SV at least once every three days, typically once a day.       >       > See:       > https://paulba.no/div/GPS_clock_correction.pdf              thanks, we are great, microseconds accumulates, actually more on earth,       than in space; more like a beacon would reset SVs from a time to another,       Loddy being wrong again about the "better clocks on ground". Microseconds       is a big number in physics.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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