Sentence examples for UT1 from inspiring English sources

Because of the irregular slowing of Earth's rate of rotation by tidal friction and other forces, there is now about one more (atomic clock-derived) second in a solar year than there are UT1 seconds.

UTC is thus kept within an exact number of seconds of International Atomic Time and is also kept within 0.9 second of the solar time denoted UT1 (see Universal Time).

To remedy this discrepancy, UTC is kept within 0.9 second of UT1 by adding a leap second to UTC as needed; the last minute of December or June is made to contain 61 seconds.

The slowing of Earth's rotation varies irregularly, and so the number of leap seconds by which UTC must be retarded to keep it in epoch with UT1 cannot be predicted years in advance.

Scotland's 56 SNP MPs will certainly seek to amend the legislation to ensure that young people are able to take part in the vote".

Two were given a gel containing PRO 2000 (in different concentrations for each group), along with advice about how to use it, a regular supply of condoms and counselling on safe sexual practice and sexual health.

Though that announcement had been hedged with the usual caveats, there was guarded optimism that MDP 301 would have similar results.

ReprintsThe first "arm" of the trial, in which PRO 2000 formed 2% of the gel, was abandoned early because results elsewhere suggested this was an ineffective mix.

This would have suggested that although PRO 2000 was not a complete answer, it might be a useful part of the armoury.The dashing of that hope is a real blow, but there are other approaches to vaginal microbicides.

Within 24 hours of this happening Katie Hopkins posted vile remarks on Twitter about how long the people of Scotland live for.

I know one place where for 200 years there were these trees, I painted them and then one day they were all chopped down.