On Fri 2007-01-12T18:35:55 +, Tony Finch hath writ:
> According to the slides linked from Dave Mills's "Timekeeping in the
> Interplanetary Internet" page, they are planning to sync Mars time to UTC.
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ipin.html
Neverminding the variations on Mars with its rath
In the last about time stamps and time representations, I took the
position that kernel timestamps had to be as simple as possible and
time efficient as possible to not impact overall system performance.
I was asked for data about timekeeping overhad causing problems to
backup my claims. I've spen
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Steve Allen wrote:
>
> Don't forget that UTC and TAI are coordinate times which are difficult
> to define off the surface of the earth. For chronometers outside of
> geostationary orbit the nonlinear deviations between the rate of a local
> oscillator and an earthbound clock cl
