In message <20110209001914.gp1...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Tue 2011-02-08T17:03:31 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ: >> NTP also does everything in UTC time > >No, NTP does not use UTC per se. >The existing implementations make that specification misleading. >Rather, NTP uses the internationally approved broadcast time scale. >The implementations do not know the name of that time scale. >Only the documentation knows that.
This is meaningless nonsense. The transmitters which transmit "the internationally approved broadcast time scales" don't know what they are transmitting either, only their documentation does. -- 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
