At 10:49 PM +0000 2/19/11, Ian Batten wrote:
On 19 Feb 2011, at 22:38, Joe Gwinn wrote:
Not necessarily. A Rubidium clock will take a few thousand years
to drift by a second. So, we cannot assume that isolated machines
have drifty clocks.
I think that before conjecturing the requires of isolated machines
which have no source of leap seconds (not even manual application
via a commandline interface "leap_next_31_dec") and yet are attached
to better than 0.02ppm clocks, someone should provide an example of
an isolated machine that is attached to a 0.02ppm clock. And why
everyone else should deal with the complexity to save that one
computer the $100 bill for a GPS receiver.
The issue isn't money, it's access to the sky.
Joe Gwinn
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