-------- In message <[email protected]>, Greg Hennessy writes: >I'd hate to get in Poul's slandering of astronomers, but if >you are trying to measure UT1, it still takes time to correlate >the VLBI data and reduce it, and then send the results >to the right people, which doesn't happen without delay. (pardon >the pun). Synching up cesiums, hydrogen masers, and rubidium >fountains can happen much faster than it used to of course.
*Any* feedback loop has a delay. It also takes time to process the GPS or twoway measurements, even if only a fraction of a second. But today the "paper" is used ti signify things which needlessly takes weeks and months. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
