Date and Time Definitions
Date Definitions:
Modified Julian Date (MJD):
MJD = Julian Date - 2,400,000.5 days
T, the Besselian date, is given by T = 2000.000 + (MJD - 51544.03) / 365.2422
Time Definitions:UT2-UT1 = 0.022 sin(2*pi*T) - 0.012 cos(2*pi*T) - 0.006 sin(4*pi*T) + 0.007 cos(4*pi*T)
where pi = π and T is the date in Besselian years.
- TT = TAI + 32.184 seconds
- since 00h 00m UTC 01 July 2012, the cumulative leap second count is:
TAI-UTC = 35 seconds (exactly)
and GPS Time-UTC = 16 seconds
- users may compute Delta T = TT - UT1 using the relation:
Delta T = 32.184 s + (TAI - UTC) - (UT1 - UTC)
where
(TAI - UTC) is the cumulative number of leap seconds
and
(UT1 - UTC) is a standard Earth Orientation product.
