In message <[email protected]>, Javier Herrero writes: >El 09/03/2011 06:29, J. Forster escribi=F3: >> This is a surprise: >> >> "in reality more than 90 percent of the users of GPS worldwide use it >> primarily for a timing reference." >> >> >This is a phallacy, except if we are taking into account indirect GPS >users,
By far the biggest one is cell-phone base stations, and since these don't work without good timesync (See recent story about the Koreas) I think it is fair to include the "indirect users" in the collateral damage. -- 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] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
