In message <4e425909.7050...@xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes: >These "local'' versions of TAI -TAI(NPL), TAI(NIST) etc, are also paper >ensemble averages and only a coarse approximation of them is available >in real time.
This argument is pretty vacuous: UTC is also a paper clock, and the real time approximations of it, UTC(NPL), UTC(NIST) etc, are exactly as good or bad as their TAI parallels. In fact, they are by *definition* exactly as good or bad, because UTC is defined as an integral number of seconds offset from TAI. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
