On 4 Aug 2011, at 06:27, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>
> The internet is faster, more reliable, and far more global than
> LF or short-wave timecodes ever were. Further, you now get
> 4 or 5 digits of precision instead of just 1, as well as history
> and predictions tens or hundreds of days in advance. All with
> one line of code and a URL.
OK, so in that case (at risk of appearing like the village idiot asking why it
gets dark in the evenings), why is |DUT1|>1s an issue? If there are widely
used dissemination formats that rely on it being <1, then it's a problem to
make it larger: existing equipment won't understand and may be broken. But if
all consumers are taking a higher-precison value from a website, unless they
have coded if (abs (dut1) > 1) { panic ("bad dut1") }, which is possible but
seems needlessly paranoid, why do they care?
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