I just watched the ball drop in Times Square (on TV, not in person!), and noticed that my watch (auto-synced daily via radio signal) was about 15 seconds fast compared to the countdown clock used by the Times Square people and the TV network. So what time standard do they use for syncing, and why does it differ from mine? (My PC clock was a few seconds slower than Times Square, and it's also regularly synced via the Internet.)
Maybe all these clocks are just so inaccurate they drift that much between resyncings. Probably most of the world's clocks are like that, which makes the great angst over leap seconds seem pointless from the standpoint of the vast majority of the public. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
