Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
>
> on 3/5/02 8:24 PM, James R. Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Who among us is so schedule driven to
> > worry about 0.9 s?
>
> It has nothing to do with daily schedules, but, if you want to know who
> needs to be concerned with a 0.9 s error in measuring the time of day, there
> are some "among us" who do.
>
> Those who guide Space shuttle to rendevous with orbiting Hubble telescopes
> do.
>
> Those who use GPS systems to locate ourselves or others depend on the
> manufacturers and programmers to know it that precisely so that the
> information we get will be correct.
....
Which is the point I went on to make in the rest of my message, only
part of which was quoted above.
Jim
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