I'm glad you brought that up. Watched CNBC go on about it, and not for the first time. Two things bother me. One is the error in time sync. Are they using full NTP or just SNTP?
The other is that humans are involved because they are the ones that receive the news. Human reaction times are in the hundreds of milli- seconds. Seems like the release of Fed news must be by machines, not people. OTOH, commentators are desperate for something to comment about. Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Cobb Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 11:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [time-nuts] Trading stocks faster than light <www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html> Financial markets in Chicago and New York reacted to news from Washington -- milliseconds faster than the news could have reached them. Includes at the end some discussion of news organizations that "aren't so good about synchronizing their master clock ..." "Historically, these news services have shown a time range of about 30 milliseconds ..." Sounds like they need time-nuts on staff. Cheers! --Stu _______________________________________________ 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.
