Re: NOT A cruel fraud!

2006-01-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ed Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Earlier, I wrote: : We all know that it (and any other world-wide timescale) is : postal at the level of the time it takes light to cross a : moderately small room but for microsecond precision and looser : this is

Re: NOT A cruel fraud!

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Bunclark
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: The short answer is that you cannot get a time feed of TAI, so the So isn't this one of the things we want to fix in the brave new world of joined-up timekeeping? Distribute (very close to) TAI, keep the kernel PLLs sweet, move leap second handling to

Re: NOT A cruel fraud!

2006-01-22 Thread James Maynard
Mr. Losh and I have apologized to each other, off list. I think we should now retire the cruel fraud subject line. -- James Maynard Salem, Oregon, USA

Re: NOT A cruel fraud!

2006-01-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Bunclark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: : The short answer is that you cannot get a time feed of TAI, so the : : So isn't this one of the things we want to fix in the brave new world of : joined-up