> The tabulations of the times of emission of radio broadcasts of UTC > were given in units of, and with an accuracy of 0.0001 s; i.e., 100 > microseconds. > > The tabulations of the intercomparisons between the time scales in > those laboratories are given with decimals to 0.1 microsecond, or 100 > nanoseconds. > >> I don't believe 3 ns is significant for any time stamp from that >> era.
Steve and Paul, To further add perspective to 1960's timescales, read these wonderful papers: Correlating Time from Europe to Asia with Flying Clocks http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1965-04.pdf World-Wide Time Synchronization, 1966 http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1966-08.pdf 'Flying Clock' Comparisons Extended to East Europe, Africa and Australia http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1967-12.pdf The articles should give you a better feel for what timekeeping, clocks, and timescales are. Does your C# code incorporate the notion of error bars? If your users are scientific, perhaps they need to know how uncertain timescale conversions are. Thanks, /tvb _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs