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TAI, on which UTC is based, is defined as the passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

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TAI, on which UTC is based, is defined as the passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

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TAI, on which UTC is based, is defined as the passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

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So you look up geoid in the dictionary and find that geoid means "Earth shaped".

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There's another meaning of geoid, which is the shape of mean sea level of the globe.

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In reality it's a potato like mass blob that's approximated by what geodesists call the "geoid".

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My example: GPS data gives altitude above the spheroid; KML requires altitude above the geoid.

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TAI, on which UTC is based, is defined as the passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.