Something different to discuss regarding real-world timekeeping
requirements. - Rob
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Al-Chaahad: new concept for young moon sighting verification
Paper 7017-49
Author(s): Mohamed Laoucet Ayari, Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
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With an estimated two billion people worldwide
I neglected to mention that this is from an SPIE program:
http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferencedetailexport_id=x13724ID=x13667redir=x13667.xmlconference_id=796763event_id=796182programtrack_id=796772
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On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
Something
On Mon 2008-03-03T11:47:30 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
Something different to discuss regarding real-world timekeeping
requirements. - Rob
With an estimated two billion people worldwide dependent upon new moon
sightings to establish the timeline of lunar months and festivals,
My
Steve Allen wrote:
I expect both systems to be forgiving of a little bit of slop in the
implementation.
I would say the system design should be responsive to the requirement
for this degree of freedom. Slop in the implementation is not only
an unhelpful phrasing, it is inaccurate. The
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From: Rob Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Leap Second Discussion List leapsecs@leapsecond.com
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] timekeeping requirements
Brian Garrett wrote:
I fail to see how precise atomic timekeeping helps them out
Brian Garrett wrote:
it would depend on whether you were doing short- or long-term
planning.
Now there is a distinction I can get behind.
Once again, Shaitan is in the details :)
Two for two - you've summed up my entire perspective :-)
- Rob
