-------- > I didn't think that NTP or POSIX or PTP is what we'd call a > timescale. NTP is a UTC synchronization algorithm.
If we give the subword "scale" its usual meaning, then NTP is a (also) a timescale: It carefully defines the scale on which it is going to synchronize computer clocks, in particular it defines the measurement unit on this scale to be 2^-32 SI second and the handling of epoch roll-overs (every 2^32 SI seconds). But more importantly, when we get to the point were we are arguing over the meaning of common well known words we might as well stop it. -- 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 https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
