In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >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.
I should add that "TOC" is an overloaded term here: it's used both about when a chain coincides with a UTC second and when it does with another chain. All chains started at the top of the second 1958-01-01 00:00:00 UTC so you can just calculate forward using the gri. Remember leapseconds. - 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
