Charles U. Farley (he/him) · @freakazoid
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I had thought the formula gives for must be inaccurate due to the uneven length of the day, but then I realized that it only gives the value for Greenwich at 0 UT, which is always corrected for the Earth's rotation and thus only dependent on the Earth's position in its orbit. Which changes slowly enough that ΔT (the difference between , which is non-uniform, and a uniform clock, generally ) can't have a significant effect.

If the difference really matters to you, you can use the , which is the current standard for but that seems to be a lot more involved to compute, and it requires downloading data from the .

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