In message <[email protected]>, Warner Losh write
s:

>>> There is also the interesting assertion that in the US the NBS was
>>> responsible for frequency and USNO was responsible for time.
>> 
>> I have heard that stated also by Prof. Dave Mills.
>
>I've also heard it from different people in the timing community.
>Usually not in glowing terms.  In some cases, I thought they were
>joking about how bad US government bureaucracy  can get...

Dave Mills characterization of this split authority was not charitable either.

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