Absolutely… Similar argument holds for the year btw. In that case it is better to treat a “day” or “year” as an artificial time constant and define them as 2π while skipping all the astronomical context. Otherwise you are free to write UT1D in a 2π notation also.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Actually a day is slightly longer than 2π since the since our orbit shifts the point of the circle that faces the sun each revolution.
MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 3 weeks ago
Absolutely… Similar argument holds for the year btw. In that case it is better to treat a “day” or “year” as an artificial time constant and define them as 2π while skipping all the astronomical context. Otherwise you are free to write UT1D in a 2π notation also.