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How to get UT1-UTC from USNO

How to get UT1-UTC

  • Do one of the following :
    • use the automated data service web page, or,
    • telnet to 192.5.41.239, or,
    • from an OPERATOR session on the summit VAXes type   $ getutc
  • and then
    • login as ads
    • enter `astro' and then `tpm'
    • decline the offer to see the coefficents, but request to see the predictions,
    • enter the appropriate dates and note the results.
    • exit
  • Update the parameters TPM.MJD1 and TPM.DELUT1 (and then '2') in the file /jac_sw/itsroot/src/tcs/thi/THI.tide on ieie.


Iain Coulson
04 Jan 2002
Contact: Holly Thomas. Updated: Sat Nov 6 18:00:32 HST 2004

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