Re: [Ntp] Timescales
Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> Thu, 10 December 2020 01:28 UTC
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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:28:00 -0800
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On Wed 2020-12-09T17:33:08-0700 Philip Prindeville hath writ: > It seems to me that time advances, only, and at a fairly constant rate [...] > > It simply goes “tick tock tick tock”… and that’s all it does. Time does that and clocks do not. In the arena of precise time a few basic principles that do not exist in POSIX time are All sources of time disagree; all clocks are wrong. Political/legal/bureaucratic concerns of agencies funding maintenance and distribution of time sometimes overrule technical concerns. Systems wanting precise time need a plan for dealing with all that. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m
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