On 12/30/2016 at 1:20 PM, "Majdi S. Abbas" wrote:On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: > What I mostly meant is that there should be a regulated, industry-wide > effort in order to provide a stable and active pool program. With the > current models, a protocol that is widely used by commercial devices is > being supported by the time and effort of volunteers around the world.
Who's authoritative for time? Even the national labs aren't -- UTC is figured well after the fact. In the United States that would the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Master Clock (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/). You can read more about it here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/demetrios-matsakis-and-the-master-clock allan
