On Dec 11, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > ATC systems being unsynchronized means that planes crash; clearly a situation > we want to avoid.
Presumably they do have layers on layers of error handling built in, as well as contingent procedures - perhaps even traditional sextant navigation relying on access to a timescale that approximates Greenwich Mean Time :-) It is possible for brittle system design as well as sloppy timekeeping to both be undesirable... Rob _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
