Geocentric Coordinate Time Geocentric Coordinate Time Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG - Temps-coordonnée géocentrique) is a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth. It is equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth: that is, a clock that performs exactly the same movements as the Earth but is outside the Earth's gravity well. It is therefore not influenced by the gravitational time dilation caused by the Earth. TCG was
Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" from Glen Dale Farm, which as so named by Hannah Jane Cockayne, née Alexander. It is known she was 20 or 21 at the time of West Virginia's secession, and that she married the owner in 1863, so even "Glen Dale Farm, Virginia" may be an anachronistic term. It is clear that what is now the city of Glen Dale was "never" a city while its location lay in Virginia. The remaining Dale/-dale-named West Virginia places are: Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" The term or name Dale appears in a number of place names in the American state