In message <aanlktinqg5-tkyapi9nzhcefctnins8tqvw2snwpl...@mail.gmail.com>, Sanj eev Gupta writes:
>I am still opposed, in principle, to letting NTP time (for example) diverge >from The One True Cosmic Time; What "One True Cosmic Time" would that be ? One where astronauts on Mars would have to monitor earths rotation in order to add or remove spurious seconds to their timescale ? Or one which, given a precise enough frequency standard and knowledge about your relativistic whereabouts you can tell what time it is, without caring what a particular and erratic piece of rock does in another part of the cosmos ? Poul-Henning -- 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. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
