In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >Can't you recover the time by tracking multiple chains and using the >relationship between them to come up with at least small number of >possible seconds? Hasn't the US started broadcasting data that can be >used to know which second you are at?
This is called "Time Of Coincidence" and it works generally OK. In Europe where the chains have 4 digit GRIs it works much better because most of the chains were chosen as prime numbers so they only coincide very seldomly. -- 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. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
