>>>>> "Warner" == M Warner Losh <[email protected]> writes:
Jim> Of those who do, how many do not use networking to keep their clock? Warner> All of them. Warner> Control applications for timing systems for LORAN-C slaved to Warner> GPS *DO* care about time of day (but not local time of day), Slaved to gps == use networking to keep their clocks. Warner> Leap seconds announcements aren't given to systems that are Warner> powered down. OK. That is indeed a good point. Obviously GPS needs to provide quicker almanac sync. But I have to ask: why should navigation systems care about time of day? Shouldn't seconds since an epoch be enough? It seems like the only issue is human monitoring of the systems' idea of now. Warner> ... we aren't talking about those systems that don't care. We Warner> are talking about the ones that do, ... My point is that the majority of systems which care about timing and which can not get almanac data to correlate an interval since an epoch with human time-of-day do not, in general, really need the latter. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
