Re: The old definition of second is winning against SI idiocy

Le 01/07/2025 à 23:19, Maciej Woźniak a écrit :

On 7/1/2025 9:56 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
 > Den 30.06.2025 20:56, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
 >> On 6/30/2025 7:51 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
 >>  > Den 28.06.2025 23:29, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
 >>  >> On 6/28/2025 9:22 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
 >>  >>  > Den 27.06.2025 10:34, skrev Maciej Woźniak:
 >>  >>  >> On 4/10/2025 10:41 PM, Paul.B.Andersen wrote:
 >>  >>  >>
 >>  >>  >>  > GPS clocks are adjusted down by (1 - 4.4647e-10)
 >>  >>  >>  > so the adjusted clock will measure a mean solar day
 >>  >>  >>  > to last 86400 s, and the clock will stay in sync with UTC.
 >>  >>  >>
 >>  >>  >> That's right - the clocks made for serious measurements
 >>  >>  >> are adjusted (calibrated) to count seconds of 1/86400
 >>  >>  >> of a mean solar day.
 >>  >
 >>  >>  >> Quite right.
 >>  >>  > The GPS-SV clocks are indeed made for serious measurements.
 >>  >>  > And the designers of the GPS understood that they
 >>  >>  > had to adjust the clocks down by (1 - 4.4647e-10) to
 >>  >>  > make the SV-clock stay in sync with UTC and would have
 >>  >>  > measured 86400 seconds in a mean solar day.
 >>  >
 >>  > And then it should be obvious that if the clock had not
 >>  > been adjusted down by (1 - 4.4647e-10), then it would have
 >>  > measured a mean solar day to last 84600.000037771 seconds.
 >>  >
 >
 >> And then it should be obvious that:
 > Maciej doesn't understand that when a clock is adjusted down by
 > (1 - 4.4647e-10) and measures a mean solar day to last 84600 seconds,
 Of course I understand that ...

you had to snip Paul's post in order to not appear as the demented crank you are?
Hint: it's not working :-)