On 11/22/2021 6:11 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
At about the Unix epoch a wise band once asked, does anybody really know what
time it is?https://youtu.be/ekGWkL0Jh-4
Eric
I used to work in the Verizon Engineering department which handled
"timing," i.e. the equipment and procedures needed to synchronize
digital transmission systems running at speeds over 44 Mbps. We used to
buy Cesium-based reference clocks which were accurate to within one
second in 100 years, but the bean counters made us switch to GPS, which
ended a long series of vendor-provided steak dinners, 😉 and forced us
to account for an entirely new set of uncertainties.
We always had a running joke that we would play on everyone during the
day after the time changeover: when someone asked "what time is it?" we
would all shout "Nobody Knows!" and start laughing.
Bill
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