1968
DOI: 10.1017/s037346330003040x
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‘The Metrication of Navigation’

Abstract: In his note (Journal 21, 81) on this subject, Ronald Turner says ‘No longer will orbital periods of the rotation of the Earth on its axis be measures of time’. This is not so, either in general or in the particular, case of navigation.Universal Time (U.T.), which is the generally accepted name for Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.), continues to be essential for all purposes (in astronomy, geodesy, surveying and navigation) for which are required astronomical observations related to the precise position of the obser… Show more

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